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Skyscan Forecast for Atlantic & the Nishna Valley: Wed., Sept. 21, 2022

Weather

September 21st, 2022 by Ric Hanson

Today: Partly cloudy to cloudy w/scattered showers possible. High 74. N @ 10-20 mph.
Tonight: Cloudy to partly cloudy. Low 45. N @ 5.
Tomorrow: P/Cldy. High 70. NE @ 10.
Friday: Mostly cloudy w/a chance of showers. High 65.
Saturday: A chance of showers in the morning, otherwise P/Cldy. High 81.

Tuesday’s High in Atlantic was 99, shattering a 131-year-old the record high of 95 that was set in 1891. The Low was 67. Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 73 and the Low was 36. The Record High on this date was 96 in 1937. The Record Low was 28 in 1901 & 1962.

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Iowa’s Kirk Ferentz previews Rutgers

Sports

September 21st, 2022 by Ric Hanson

Iowa gets ready for its Big Ten opener and first road trip when the Hawkeyes visit Rutgers under the lights. The Scarlet Knights are 3-0 and expect a big crowd.

That’s Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz who says they are preparing for a hostile environment.

Rutgers has started three different quarterbacks and Ferentz says the Hawkeyes are preparing for all of them.

This game will feature two struggling offenses that may be dealing with bad field position. Australian born punters Tory Taylor from Iowa and Adam Korsack from Rutgers are two of the nation’s best.

Keagan Johnson may not play this week but Iowa’s receivers are getting healthier. Brody Brecht saw his first extensive action and Ferentz believes they key is more practice time.

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Iowa State’s Matt Campbell previews No. 17 Baylor

Sports

September 21st, 2022 by Ric Hanson

If recent history is any indication Saturday’s Big 12 opener between Iowa State and 17th ranked Baylor will be a nail biter. The teams have split their last six meetings and four of the games have been decided by three points or less.

That’s Iowa State coach Matt Campbell the Bears edged the Cyclones 31-29 last season in Waco. ISU is 3-0 and the Cyclone defense faces it toughest challenge so far.

This game has the makings of a defensive slugfest but Campbell says it is important to be ready to adjust.

Campbell says Baylor is a well rounded team.

Campbell was asked about the loss of traditions and rivalries in college football. Oklahoma and Oklahoma State announced the Bedlam Series will be discontinued when the Sooners leave for the S-E-C.

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Multiple high temperature records surpassed yesterday

News, Weather

September 21st, 2022 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – Some thermometers in western Iowa hit triple digits yesterday (Tuesday). National Weather Service meteorologist Alex Trellinger says the highest temperature reported to his office in Sioux Falls was 102, just south of Akron. “We got one of our sites at Morris, which is in Sioux County, at 100 degrees,” he says, “and then Spencer hit 101.” That was the temperature in Spencer at 5 p.m.

It’s been 97 years since Spencer had a 101 degree day in September — and that 101 degree day back in 1925 was on September FOURTH. Things warmed up quickly in Iowa yesterday (Tuesday), with temperatures soaring by 11 a.m.  “We just got a much warmer air into the region out ahead of a cold front, which really helped to effect all of these much warmer temperatures here in our region,” Trellinger says, “especially considering the time of year here, the middle-to-end of September.”

Trellinger says drought conditions played a role in yesterday’s high temperatures in northwest Iowa, as the sun’s heat bore down on parched ground. “When we’re not in a drought, the heat is also used to evaporate some of the moisture in the soil there, so it’s not as efficient as a heating mechanism when there’s moisture in the soil,” he says, “so by being very dry, that does set us up to being warmer than usual.”

Several other Iowa cities broke high temperature records Tuesday: In Atlantic we reached 99 degrees, which broke a 131-year old record of 95 (set in 1891); Cedar Rapids hit 96. That was also the record high in Lamoni. It reached 95 in Burlington. Des Moines hit 94 and it was 93 in Dubuque. Meteorologist Jim Lee of the National Weather Service office in metro Des Moines, who was tracking the records, says Waterloo hit 96 degrees. “We were unseasonably hot, as any resident would tell you,” Lee says. “We had multiple parts of the state get well up into the mid to upper 90s.” A triple digit temperature had not been recorded on a September 20th anywhere in Iowa for 69 years.

“By a lot of measures not only did we break daily records, but to be this late in the year and get this hot maybe it not unprecedented, but very rare,” Lee says. Today’s forecast: highs in the 60s and 70s.

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1 dead, 2 injured in a Dallas County crash, Tuesday

News

September 21st, 2022 by Ric Hanson

(Redfield, Iowa) – A collision in Dallas County, east of Redfield, late Tuesday morning , left one person dead and two others, including a child, injured. The Iowa State Patrol reports a 2011 Dodge Grand Caravan driven by 97-year-old Arnold Philip Whitney, of Redfield, was southbound on I Avenue, when Whitney failed to yield as he proceeded to turn east onto Old Highway 6.

A 2018 KIA Sorento traveling east on Old Highway 6 and driven by 76-year-old Jeffrey Lynn Lyon, of Adel, struck the van in the rear, sending it into the westbound lane, directly into the path of a westbound 2010 Honda Odyssey van, driven by 34-year-old Savannah Louise Corbett, of Adel. The crash happened at around 11:15-a.m.

The Dodge and the Honda collided in the westbound lane before the Caravan came to rest in the north ditch. The Honda van spun around and came to rest facing east, in the westbound lane. The Patrol says Arnold Whitney died at the scene. Corbett, and her 11-year-old passenger, Olivia Corbett, were injured and transported to Methodist Hospital in Des Moines by Dallas County EMS.

All of the crash victims were wearing their seat belts. The Patrol was assisted at the scene by the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office.

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High School Volleyball Scoreboard 09/20/2022

Sports

September 20th, 2022 by admin

Hawkeye Ten Conference

(3-2) Atlantic def Shenandoah
(3-0) Kuemper Catholic 25-25-25, Atlantic 13-7-22
(3-0) Kuemper Catholic 25-25-25, Shenandoah 13-7-22

(3-0) Clarinda 25-25-25, Mount Ayr 20-17-16
(3-0) Red Oak 25-25-25, Harlan 21-19-15
(3-0) St. Albert 25-25-25, Denison-Schleswig 9-8-9

Western Iowa Conference

(3-0) Missouri Valley 25-25-25, AHSTW 23-7-8
(3-0) Treynor 25-25-25, IKM-Manning 17-14-10
(3-1) Underwood 24-25-25-25, Audubon 26-21-19-21

Rolling Valley Conference

(3-0) Boyer Valley 25-2-5-25, Woodbine 17-21-13
(3-0) Glidden-Ralston 25-25-25, Coon Rapids-Bayard 13-10-13
(3-1) Ar-We-Va def Exira-EHK
(3-0) CAM 25-25-25, Paton-Churdan 5-11-19

Corner Conference

(3-0) East Mills 25-25-25, Fremont-Mills 6-20-17
(3-0) Griswold 25-25-25, Essex 7-12-14 (G: Linsey Keiser 8 aces. Carolina Arcia 5 aces, 24 assists, 6 digs. Makenna Askeland 13 kills, 11 digs.)

Pride of Iowa Conference

(3-1) Southwest Valley 25-25-22-30, Lenox 20-8-25-28
(3-0) Nodaway Valley 25-27-25, Bedford 19-25-10

Other Scores

(3-2) Carroll 22-25-12-25-15, Ballard 25-22-25-21-13
(3-0) CB Abraham Lincoln 25-30-25, Sergeant Bluff-Luton 21-28-18
(3-0) Sioux City East 25-25-25, CB Thomas Jefferson 11-8-10
(2-0) Twin Cedars 25-25, Orient-Macksburg 10-5
(2-0) Lamoni 25-25, Orient-Macksburg 15-15

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Clarinda girls, Glenwood boys win Creston XC Meet 09/20/2022

Sports

September 20th, 2022 by admin

Creston XC Meet
Southwestern Community College
09/20/2022

Girls Team Scores

  1. Clarinda 28
  2. Atlantic 29
  3. Creston 77
  4. Red Oak 120

Girls Individual Top Ten

  1. Mayson Hartley, Clarinda
  2. Raenna Henke, Clarinda
  3. Ava Rush, Atlantic
  4. Claire Pellett, Atlantic
  5. Maya Hunter, Clarinda
  6. Belle Berg, Atlantic
  7. Katrina Williams, Atlantic
  8. Amelia Hesse, Clarinda
  9. Faith Altman, Atlantic
  10. Emmma Pantini, Creston

Boys Team Scores

  1. Glenwood 22
  2. Clarinda 65
  3. Atlantic 66
  4. Chariton 83
  5. Creston 142

Boys Individual Top Ten

  1. Bryant Keller, Glenwood
  2. Treyton Schaapherder, Clarinda
  3. Andrew Smith, Glnewood
  4. Kyle Wagoner, Clarinda
  5. Preston Slayman, Glenwood
  6. Kevin Coots, Glenwood
  7. Ilam Hays, Glenwood
  8. Jackson Griffin, Glenwood
  9. Alex Sonntag, Atlantic
  10. Maverick Mixan, Glenwood

Full results HERE

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Flu season could be severe, get shots now along with a COVID booster

News

September 20th, 2022 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – Health officials are encouraging Iowans to get flu shots as soon as possible. The experts say Australia is already experiencing its worst flu season in five years, which could indicate it will also be severe in the U-S. Nola Aigner -Davis, spokeswoman for the Polk County Health Department in Des Moines, says the county is still seeing many COVID-19 cases and its hospital system is again strained.

“We really need to still be good to our hospital and healthcare systems,” Aigner-Davis says, “because they’re still in a staffing shortage from COVID-19. They’re still taking care of very sick individuals.” Since early 2020, more than 46-thousand Iowans have been hospitalized for treatment of COVID, while the state’s death toll from the virus is expected to exceed 10-thousand when the official numbers are released on Wednesday.

“We’re not seeing COVID slow down,” she says. “We keep hearing of people getting sick, being hospitalized. Cases aren’t stopping and you can get COVID and the flu at the same time.” Aigner-Davis says people who are interested can get a flu shot and a COVID booster in one visit, while Iowans who think they have the flu should contact their doctor for guidance. In the past few years, Iowa’s average life expectancy has fallen about a year-and-a-half due to COVID.

(reporting by Natalie Krebs, Iowa Public Radio)

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Taiwan agrees to buy $2.6 billion worth of US corn, soybeans and ag byproducts

Ag/Outdoor, News

September 20th, 2022 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – Officials from Taiwan have agreed to buy two-point-six billion dollars worth of U.S. corn, soybeans and dried distillers grain. Representatives of Iowa commodity groups joined Taiwan officials at the Iowa Capitol for a signing ceremony. Johnson Chiang is director general of the country’s Economic and Cultural Office in Chicago.

“We want to have more cooperation with Iowa in addition to purchasing agriculture products, but also I think we enough areas in high technologies because of Taiwan is also one of the leading contributors to the high technology supply chain.” Taiwan, for example, is the world’s largest supplier of computer chips. Taiwan has signed letters of intent to purchase one-and-a-half million metric tons of U.S. corn and up to two-point-nine metric tons of U.S. soybeans as well as by-products of corn and beans over the next two years.

Iowa Agriculture Secretary Mike Naig says trade matters to Iowa. “As a leading exporter of food and agriculture products, we see great value in the type of commitment that you all signed today and that continues to build upon a relationship that we are maintaining and building throughout time.” Governor Kim Reynolds says Iowa exports to Taiwan have increased in the past five years and are on pace to be higher this year as well.

“Taiwan’s economic clout is substantial,” Reynolds says. “It’s the 12th largest purchaser of Iowa products, with a total of $304 million of (Iowa) goods sold in Taiwan last year.” The Taiwanese delegation is on a goodwill mission to the United States and has spent the past two days in Iowa. Chin-Chang Huang is the deputy minister of Taiwan’s Council of Agriculture. He was intrigued by Iowa State University programs on climate change and sustainable agriculture and plans to recommend his government establish agreements with I-S-U.

“And also send our people to study at Iowa State University,” he said. Taiwan’s first directly-elected president earned an agricultural economics degree from Iowa State in 1953. President Lee led Taiwan from 1988 until 2000.

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EAB found in 93rd Iowa county

Ag/Outdoor, News

September 20th, 2022 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – The emerald ash borer (EAB) has now been discovered in all but six of Iowa’s 99 counties.
The Iowa Department of Agriculture has confirmed that Mitchell County is the 93rd county with an E-A-B infestation. Larvae were collected near Spring Park in rural Osage and federal identification confirmed them as the invasive insect. It is the ninth confirmed infestation this year.

The only counties now without an E-A-B infestation are Plymouth, Woodbury, Monona, Osceola, Emmett, and Palo Alto counties in western and northwest Iowa. The Ag Department says the invasive insect is a threat to native ash tree species — with the damage from the larva typically killing a tree within two to four years after infestation.

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