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Local Rainfall Totals at 7:00 am on Thursday, September 8

Ag/Outdoor, Weather

September 8th, 2016 by Jim Field

  • KJAN, Atlantic  .62.”
  • 7 miles NNE of Atlantic  .7″
  • Massena  1.08″
  • Elk Horn  .49″
  • Audubon  .42″
  • Oakland  .54″
  • Guthrie Center  .65″
  • Woodbine  .28″
  • Red Oak  1.13″
  • Villisca  .73″
  • Clarinda  .22″
  • Glenwood  .4″
  • Shenandoah  .27″
  • Denison  .13″
  • Carroll  .13″

Skyscan forecast & weather data for Atlantic: 9/8/16

Weather

September 8th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

Today: Areas of dense fog this morning thru 9-a.m; Mo. Sunny. High 83. W/NW @ 5-10.

Tonight: P/Cldy to Cldy w/a 30% chance of shwrs & tstrms late. Low 68. E @ 5/

Tomorrow: Shwrs & tstrms likely, mainly during the afternoon. High 78. S/SE @ 5-10.

Tom. Night: A 30% chance of shwrs & tstrms thru midnight. Low 58.

Saturday: Mo. Sunny. High 75.

Sunday: Mo. Sunny. High 79.

Wednesday’s High in Atlantic was 78.We received .62’ of rain. Our 24-hour Low was 65. Last year on this date, our High in Atlantic was 79 and the low was 53. The Record High in Atlantic on this date was 100 in 1947. The Record Low was 36 in 1986.

Linn County again advance hike in minimum wage

News

September 8th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) – Linn County supervisors have again voted to advance a measure increasing the county’s minimum wage. The board voted 4-1 Wednesday to raise the county rate to $8.25 an hour on Jan. 1. The wage would increase by a dollar in January 2018 and another dollar in January 2019. The current county, state and national rate is $7.25 an hour.

The board is scheduled to vote on the proposal for a third and last time Monday.

School Bus overturns in Clarke County Wed. afternoon – 8 injured

News

September 8th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

OSCEOLA, Iowa (AP) – Seven children and one adult were taken to two hospitals after their school bus toppled off a slick gravel road outside Osceola Wednesday afternoon. The Iowa State Patrol says the 2014 Thomas bus driven by 72-year old Darwin Griffith, of Osceola, was traveling north on 210th Avenue, just north of Truro, when the bus went out of control and slid into the east ditch, where it struck a bridge railing and overturned, coming to rest in a creek. The accident happened just before 3-p.m., Wednesday.

Griffith and all seven children suffered minor injuries and were transported to the Clarke County Hospital in Osceola and Blank Children’s Hospital in Des Moines, as a precaution. Clarke County Sheriff’s Deputy Brian Akers says the area had received a heavy downpour that turned the road “all to soup,” shortly before the crash.

2 from Missouri injured in Pott. County crash, Wed. evening

News

September 8th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

Two people were injured during a single-vehicle accident in Pottawattamie County, Wednesday. The Iowa State Patrol reports a 2006 Chevy Colorado pickup driven by 33-year old Rhonda Rodrick, of Maryville, MO., was traveling north on Interstate 29 at around 9:05-p.m., when the vehicle entered the median near the southern city limits of Council Bluffs (44.5 mile marker), and struck a cable barrier.

The pickup took out about 20 barrier posts before it came to rest against the barrier. Rodrick and her passenger, 28-year old Sheila McMichael, also of Maryville, MO., were transported by Lewis Township Rescue to Mercy Hospital in Council Bluffs for treatment of minor injuries. The Patrol says Rodrick was wearing her seat belt, but McMichael was not.

Patty Judge says Grassley isn’t giving Iowans a ‘straight answer’ about his own pay

News

September 8th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

Patty Judge — the Democrat who’s challenging Republican Senator Chuck Grassley’s bid for reelection — says Grassley is distorting HER record AND his own when it comes to pay raises. Grassley’s running a campaign ad that criticizes Judge for failing to voluntarily take a pay cut in 2009 when she was serving as Iowa’s lieutenant governor. “In the height of that recession, where he is trying to call me out, he took a permanent pay raise that was nearly $5000,” Judge says. “Now that was his 23rd raise since he went to Washington.”

Judge served one term as lieutenant governor and her salary was about 103-thousand dollars. “As lieutenant governor I never took a pay raise, including a cost of living adjustment. It simply was not done,” Judge says. Grassley told Radio Iowa earlier this week that “several times in the last five or six years” he’s taken “a pay cut.” Judge says that’s not a “straight answer.”

“He’s trying to claim that voting against a COLA — a cost of living adjustment — is the same thing as taking a pay cut, you know. Really,” Judge says. “Only someone who’s been in Washington too long would try to make that kind of argument.” According to the U.S. Senate’s website, the salaries for senators have been frozen at 174-thousand dollars since 2009. Judge says Grassley and other Republicans insisted on taking the longest summer recess since the 1950s — and she suggests their pay should be cut as a result of that extra vacation.

“Chuck Grassley is more concerned with airing negative attack ads today than working on behalf of Iowa,” Judge says. Grassley’s campaign manager is accusing Judge of trying to “change the subject” from her mismanagement of state government while she was lieutenant governor. Grassley campaign manager Robert Haus (like “house”) says Judge took a “meat cleaver” to the state budget and forced workers to take furloughs or be laid off, but wouldn’t take a pay cut herself.

Grassley told Radio Iowa on Tuesday that he has “consistently voted for measures to deny all congressional pay raises.” Judge says during the government shutdown of 2013 Grassley continued to accept his taxpayer-funded salary, while about 120 other members of congress donated their salaries to charity or back to the government.

(Radio Iowa)

Iowa early News Headlines: Thu., 9/8/16

News

September 8th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:40 a.m. CDT

OSCEOLA, Iowa (AP) — Children were taken to two hospitals after their school bus toppled off a slick gravel road outside Osceola. Clarke Community School District Superintendent Steve Seid says eight to 10 elementary and middle school students were in the bus when it slid off the road and overturned Wednesday afternoon near Squaw Creek. Seid told The Des Moines Register the children appear to have only minor injuries but were taken to hospitals in Osceola and Des Moines as a precaution.

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — Authorities have identified a 10-year-old boy who died last week after crashing his bicycle into a tree. The Quad City-Times reports that Raydell Maurice Hurt Jr., of Davenport, died in the Friday accident. A preliminary investigation indicates that the boy was riding his bicycle down a hill in the cemetery when he lost control and hit the tree.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A third man convicted in the 2011 robbery and fatal shooting of a northwest Iowa resident has been sent to prison. Federal prosecutors say Courtland Clark, of Flowery Branch, Georgia, was sentenced Wednesday to 21 years in custody. He’d pleaded guilty to interference with commerce by robbery and to a weapons offense.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Supreme Court has decided to let an attorney who took more than $99,000 from a client resume practicing law. The Des Moines Register reports that the justices ruled unanimously to reinstate Michael Reilly’s law license. The court ruling released Friday said Reilly had worked hard to overcome a gambling addiction that led to the theft. Several western Iowa lawyers had written letters vouching for his character.

Kang’s HR ends Pirates’ 8-game skid; Bucs beat Cards 4-3

Sports

September 8th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Jung Ho Kang led off the eighth inning with a home run, leading the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 4-3 win over the St. Louis Cardinals on Wednesday night to snap an eight-game losing streak.

Kang hit a drive deep into the bullpens in left-center off rookie Alex Reyes (1-1) for his 17th homer and third in two games. It helped snap the Pirates’ longest skid since dropping 10 straight in 2011. The Cardinals are percentage points ahead of the New York Mets for the second NL wild card, and the Pirates drew within 4 ½ games of St. Louis.

Trevor Williams (1-0) allowed one unearned run in three innings for the win in his major league debut. Tony Watson worked a perfect ninth inning for his 11th save.

KJAN listening area forecast from the NWS, 9/8/16

Weather

September 8th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

321 AM CDT THU SEP 8 2016

EARLY THIS MORNING…MOSTLY CLOUDY. AREAS OF DENSE FOG. NORTHWEST WIND NEAR 5 MPH.

TODAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. AREAS OF FOG THROUGH MID MORNING. HIGH IN THE LOWER 80S. NORTH WIND 5 TO 10 MPH SHIFTING TO THE EAST IN THE AFTERNOON.

TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. LOW IN THE UPPER 60S. SOUTHEAST WIND AROUND 5 MPH.

FRIDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN THE MORNING…THEN THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGH IN THE UPPER 70S. SOUTH WIND AROUND 5 MPH SHIFTING TO THE WEST IN THE AFTERNOON. CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS 70 PERCENT.

FRIDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH MIDNIGHT…THEN MOSTLY CLEAR AFTER MIDNIGHT. COOLER. LOW IN THE LOWER 50S. NORTHWEST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.

SATURDAY…SUNNY. HIGH IN THE LOWER 70S. NORTHWEST WIND 5 TO 15 MPH.

SUNDAY…SUNNY. HIGH IN THE UPPER 70S.

Beware of dense fog in western/s.w. IA this morning (9/8)

Weather

September 8th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

SAC-MONONA-HARRISON-SHELBY-POTTAWATTAMIE-MILLS-MONTGOMERY-FREMONT-PAGE-CRAWFORD-CARROLL-AUDUBON-GUTHRIE-CASS-ADAIR COUNTIES…316 AM CDT THU SEP 8 2016…

AREAS OF FOG WITH PATCHY DENSE FOG EARLY TODAY

IN THE WAKE OF THUNDERSTORMS AND RAIN EARLIER IN THE EVENING AREAS OF FOG HAVE BEEN DEVELOPING OVER PORTIONS OF WEST…SOUTHWEST…AND CENTRAL IOWA. VISIBILITY AT SOME LOCATION HAS ALREADY DROPPED TO ONE QUARTER MILE OR LESS. EXPECT LOW VISIBILITY AT TIMES THROUGH JUST AFTER SUNRISE THIS THURSDAY MORNING.

IF YOU ARE TRAVELING EARLY TODAY…USE EXTRA CAUTION IF POCKETS OF DENSE FOG ARE ENCOUNTERED. SLOW DOWN…USE LOW BEAM HEADLIGHTS…AND ALLOW EXTRA TIME TO REACH YOUR DESTINATION SAFELY. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT INTERSECTIONS…NEAR SCHOOL BUS STOPS… AND WHEN APPROACHING RAILROAD CROSSINGS. ONCOMING VEHICLES AND TRAINS MAY BE HIDDEN BY THE FOG.

THE FOG SHOULD BEGIN TO LIFT AFTER SUNRISE BUT MAY TAKE AN ADDITIONAL HOUR OR TWO TO FULLY GIVE WAY TO MORE SUNSHINE AND BRIGHTER SKIES.