(Bayard, Iowa) – A water boil advisory was issued Monday, for the Guthrie County town of Bayard. According to officials with the Bayard Water Supply, crews began conducting maintenance on the water treatment plant, Monday. The City is recommending the use of bottled water or alternative sources for drinking, making ice, brushing teeth and food preparation. Bayard Water Supply will notify the public when the boil advisory ends.
(Radio Iowa) – As we start the month of March, many Iowans are looking ahead to spring. Despite this week’s unseasonably warm weather, a prediction from the Farmers’ Almanac indicates winter will be holding on a little longer. Managing editor Sandi Duncan says we shouldn’t expect to be sporting shorts and t-shirts anytime soon. “Spring officially arrives on the calendar on March 20th, but it looks like it’s going to take a little time for it to warm up,” Duncan says. “However, overall it doesn’t look too extreme. We’re seeing pretty much average temperatures and normal precipitation in your neck of the woods.”
But, Duncan says to keep those boots and snow shovels handy as there is the possibility of a blizzard late in April. “So just when everyone thinks winter is long gone, Mother Nature might throw us all a curve ball,” she says. The Farmers’ Almanac is predicting that once spring-like temperatures do settle in, we are likely to see slightly warmer-than-normal temperatures here in the Midwest.
“It’s going to be a little warmer in the northern half of the country — which includes your area — than it is in the South,” she says. “So some people might refer to this spring as a backward type of spring, but overall the Farmers’ Almanac is showing your area is going to have pretty much average temperatures. Starting off slightly cool, going back and forth and the possibility of a big storm at the end of April.”
Looking ahead, Duncan says much of the upper Midwest will experience a sizzling summer. The Almanac’s forecasts extend out from six to 16 months and they’re based on a formula established two centuries ago. “It was set on a bunch of rules that we’ve altered slightly but we still consider a lot of the rules that our founding editor in 1818, we still follow them,” Duncan says. “They are rules that talk about sunspot activity, tidal action, the Moon, the position of the planets. They apply them to different weather conditions and they’ve been doing a pretty good job for us.”
She says those who follow the publication’s long-range outlooks say they’re 80 to 85% accurate.
Today: Partly cloudy. High 68. W/NW @ 10-15 mph.
Tonight: Fair to P/Cldy. Low 35. Wind light & variable.
Tomorrow: P/Cldy. High 68. SW @ 10-20.
Thursday: Mostly cloudy. High around 45.
Friday: P/Cldy. High near 60.
Monday’s High in Atlantic was 68. Our Low was 19. Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 38 and the Low was 22. The Record High on this date was 77 in 1992. The Record Low was -32 in 1962.
The Council Bluffs Police Department reports a collision between a truck and a motorcycle Monday afternoon resulted in life-threatening injuries to the motorcyclist. The accident happened at around 4:45-p.m., at the intersection of S. 24th Street and Veteran’s Memorial Highway (Vets).
A preliminary investigation revealed that the 2006 Harley Davidson operated by 51-year-old Richard Davenport, of Omaha, was eastbound on Vets Hwy when a 2016 Ford F-150 driven by 41-year old Jacob Eyberg, of Council Bluffs, made a left turn in front of the cycle.
Davenport was transported to an area trauma center in critical condition. Eyberg was not injured. The crash was under investigation by the Council Bluffs Police Traffic Unit.
Class 4A Substate Finals (All scheduled for 7:00 p.m.)
Substate 1 @ Dallas Center-Grimes: Ankeny (18-4) vs. Waukee (14-10)
Substate 2 @ Ankeny Centennial: Ames (19-3) vs. Des Moines Hoover (16-8)
Substate 3 @ Marshalltown: Valley (20-3) vs. Cedar Falls (19-2)
Substate 4 @ Solon: Cedar Rapids Kennedy (19-3) vs. Cedar Rapids Washington (13-9)
Substate 5 @ Muscatine: Pleasant Valley (22-0) vs. Burlington (16-7)
Substate 6 @ Clinton: Prairie (16-6) vs. Dubuque Hempstead (13-10)
Substate 7 @ Lincoln High: Waukee Northwest (19-4) vs. Urbandale (13-10)
Substate 8 @ Indianola: Johnston (18-3) vs. Dowling Catholic (9-14)
Class 3A Quarterfinals
10:00 a.m. – #3 Ballard (21-3) vs. #6 Center Point-Urbana (21-3)
Class 4A Quarterfinals
11:45 a.m. – #1 Dallas Center-Grimes (20-3) vs. #8 Benton Community (19-5)
1:30 p.m. – #4 Cedar Rapids Xavier (17-6) vs. #5 Central DeWitt (19-4)
3:15 p.m. – #2 Glenwood (19-4) vs. #7 Bondurant-Farrar (16-7)
5:00 p.m. – #3 Bishop Heelan (21-2) vs. #6 Waverly-Shell Rock (18-5)
Class 2A Quarterfinals
6:45 p.m. – #1 Dike-New Hartford (22-2) vs. #8 South Central Calhoun (19-5)
8:30 p.m. – #4 Panorama (24-1) vs. #5 Iowa City Regina (20-4)
The 24th ranked Iowa Hawkeyes built 19 point halftime lead and beat Northwestern 82-61. It was the Hawks seventh win in their last eight games as they improve to 11-7 in the Big Ten. The Hawks finish the month of February 7-1.
That’s Iowa coach Fran McCaffery who talks about a key to the late season surge.
Keegan Murray scored 26 points and grabbed 18 rebounds and Jordan Bohannon celebrated senior night by scoring 18 points.
Bohannon says it was an emotional evening.
Iowa visits Michigan Thursday night. We’ll have that game on KJAN with pregame at 7:00 p.m.
The fifth ranked Baylor women outscored eighth ranked Iowa State 22-11 in the second quarter and crushed the Cyclones 87-62 in a Big 12 first place showdown in Ames. Ashley Joens led the Cyclones with 19 points but ISU made just four of 20 from three point range and was outrebounded 43-26.
The Cyclones never recovered from the second quarter.
The crowd of better than 13 thousand 900 was the second largest in Cyclone history.
Iowa State is 24-5 overall and closes the regular season at West Virginia Saturday night. Cyclone coach Bill Fennelly.
FIRST TEAM
Raydden Grobe, AHSTW*
Brayden Lund, AHSTW*
Kyle Sternberg, AHSTW*
Thomas Schwartz, Treynor*
Grady Jeppesen, Riverside*
Jack Vanfossan, Underwood
Michael Turner, Tri-Center
Jace Tams, Treynor
*Unanimous
SECOND TEAM
Mason Boothby, Underwood
Carson Bauer, Audubon
Cole Staska, Missouri Valley
Cole Scheffler, AHSTW
Ayden Salais, Riverside
Kent Elliot, Tri-Center
Aiden Bell, Riverside
Honorable Mention
Tru Melby, Logan-Magnolia
Ethan Dickerson, Treynor
Baker Lally, Logan-Magnolia
Gavin Smith, Audubon
Edward Miller, Audubon
Josh Ravlin, Underwood
Conner Halbur, IKM-Manning
Brody West, Logan-Magnolia
Conference Player of the Year: Raydden Grobe, AHSTW
Class 3A Substate Finals
Substate 1 @ Storm Lake: Humboldt 63, Spencer 55
Substate 2 @ Waterloo East: Decorah 46, Clear Lake 39
Substate 3 @ Maquoketa: Wahlert Catholic (16-6) vs. Assumption (18-5) Played 3/1
Substate 4 @ Mount Vernon: Central DeWitt 47, Solon 37
Substate 5 @ Liberty High: Marion 75, Clear Creek-Amana 62
Substate 6 @ Ankeny Centennial: Dallas Center-Grimes 56, Newton 31
Substate 7 @ Indianola: Winterset 72, Pella 62
Substate 8 @ Atlantic: Carroll 74, Denison-Schleswig 55
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