348 AM CST Mon Dec 9 2019

Today and tonight: Drizzle or freezing drizzle will be followed by a quick shot of snow later this morning, which may affect the late morning commute. Gusty northwest winds will also develop with gusts up to
35 mph at times.

Tuesday through Sunday: Colder temperatures and the potential for temperatures or wind chills either side of zero are expected Tuesday and Wednesday mornings over northern Iowa.

Mills-Montgomery-Fremont-Page Counties..

…Patchy Dense Fog this Morning…

Areas of dense fog have developed early this morning across portions of far southeast Nebraska and southwest Iowa where visibilities have been reduced to a quarter mile or less. These conditions will likely persist through 8 AM, before winds switch to northwest at 20 to 30 mph with higher gusts.

If traveling this morning, be prepared for rapid fluctuations in visibility.

Today: Partly sunny, with a high near 50. South southwest wind 5 to 7 mph becoming light and variable in the afternoon.
Tonight: A 20 percent chance of rain after 5am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 25. Calm wind becoming north 5 to 7 mph after midnight.
Monday: A chance of rain and snow before 7am, then a chance of snow between 7am and noon. Cloudy through mid morning, then gradual clearing, with a temperature falling to around 20 by 5pm. Wind chill values as low as 5. Windy, with a northwest wind 10 to 15 mph increasing to 19 to 24 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 37 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.
Monday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 13. Wind chill values as low as 5. Blustery, with a northwest wind 12 to 17 mph becoming west 5 to 10 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 26 mph.
Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 25. Northwest wind 8 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph.
Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 10.
Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 30.

Skyscan Forecast  Saturday, December 7, 2019  Dan Hicks

Today: Mostly sunny. SW @ 10-20. High 50.

Tonight: Fair to partly cloudy. Light S winds. Low 32.

Sunday: Partly cloudy. S @ 10. High 50.

Monday: Mostly cloudy. Light snow. High early of 30, then falling temps.

Tuesday: Partly cloudy. High 20.

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(Radio Iowa/KJAN weather data) — State Climatologist Justin Glissan says November was below normal in a couple of areas. “Temperature wise — we were at 32-point-four degrees Fahrenheit — which is four degrees below average,” according to Glissan. “Looking at the precipitation side of things, we were at one-point-four inches. Which is about six-tenths below average.

In Atlantic, our average High for the month was 45, the average Low was 23, and we received just .85” (eighty-five one-hundredths) of an inch of precipitation (including both liquid and frozen forms), which was one-inch below normal. Statewide, Glissan says snowfall was the one area that was above normal for November. “We had four-point-four inches statewide — which is about two inches above average. And a majority of that fell in the northern part of the state,” Glissan says.

Atlantic was on the low side of the snow, however, at just 1.1 inches for the month. We entered the winter season on Sunday and Glissan says the outlook calls for more precipitation than normal in the coming months. “We’re looking at December, January, February. We do have a precipitation signal in the climate outlook that show us an elevated change of wetter than normal conditions all across the upper Midwest. In fact stretching from Seattle all the way to the east coast and down to Missouri,” Glissan says. “So yes, we’re in that higher probability of wetter than average conditions.”

He says there isn’t a clear read on what the temperatures will be like. He says we are in what’s called an E-C or equal chance of above, below or average temperatures moving into winter. Glissan says December is normally the third driest month of the year.

Today: Mostly sunny. High 41. NW @ 10-15.

Tonight: Partly cloudy. Low 24. SW @ 5.

Tomorrow: P/Cldy. High 46, NW @ 10-15.

Wednesday: P/Cldy. High 49.

Thursday: P/Cldy. High 51.

Sunday’s High in Atlantic, was 32 Our Low this morning 16. Last year on this date, the High in Atlantic was 33 and the Low was 25. The record High for Dec. 2nd in Atlantic, was 63 in 1995. The Record Low was -10 in 1985.