EARLY THIS MORNING…MOSTLY CLEAR. SOUTH WIND NEAR 5 MPH.

TODAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGH IN THE MID 80S. SOUTH WIND 5 TO 15 MPH.

TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOW IN THE LOWER 60S. SOUTH WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.

FRIDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGH IN THE MID 80S. SOUTH WIND 10 TO 15 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 25 MPH.

FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. BREEZY. LOW IN THE UPPER 60S. HIGH IN THE MID 80S. SOUTH WIND 10 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 30 MPH.

SATURDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 50 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. LOW IN THE UPPER 60S.

SUNDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. HIGH IN THE UPPER 80S.

Now that July has arrived, we’re out of the peak season for tornadoes in Iowa, although twisters can strike during any month of the year. Jeff Johnson, warning coordination meteorologist at the National Weather Service, says the state’s tornado tally is well below average for the year so far, not that anyone’s complaining. “The tornado numbers were still a little bit down compared to normal,” Johnson says. “We had ten and we average probably 30 every year, so our numbers were a little bit down but still we had some significant storms.” Based on the forecast, this holiday week’s weather shouldn’t include anything severe, but Johnson notes, that can always change in a hurry.

“We can get severe weather in July and August, even right on through the late fall,” Johnson says. “Even in November, it’s not unprecedented to get tornadoes. Remember Stratford here in ’05. We’re not out of the woods but we’re beyond the peak season and we still have to keep our guard out.” Iowa’s first tornado this year struck on May 19th. The previous confirmed tornado touchdown in the state was 358 days prior. It set a record for the longest time Iowa’s been tornado-free in more than 60 years of record-keeping.

(Radio Iowa)

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400 AM CDT WED JUL 3 2013

EARLY THIS MORNING…PARTLY CLOUDY. NORTH WIND NEAR 5 MPH.

TODAY…PARTLY SUNNY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGH IN THE LOWER 80S. NORTHEAST WIND NEAR 5 MPH SHIFTING TO THE SOUTHEAST IN THE AFTERNOON.

TONIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN THE EVENING. LOW IN THE UPPER 50S. SOUTHEAST WIND AROUND 5 MPH.

INDEPENDENCE DAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGH IN THE LOWER 80S. SOUTH WIND 5 TO 15 MPH.

THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOW IN THE LOWER 60S. HIGH IN THE MID 80S. SOUTH WIND 5 TO 15 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 25 MPH.

FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOW IN THE UPPER 60S. HIGH IN THE UPPER 80S.

SATURDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. LOW AROUND 70.

SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGH IN THE UPPER 80S. LOW IN THE LOWER 70S.

249 PM CDT TUE JUL 2 2013

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…ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS…

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AND MOVE SOUTHWARD ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW OF THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH. HOWEVER…NO WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED.

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Today: Isolated showers and thunderstorms after 10am. Mostly sunny, with a high near 80. Calm wind becoming north 5 to 9 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Tonight: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 10pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 55. North wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the evening.

Wednesday: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 80. Light and variable wind.
Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 59. Southeast wind 3 to 5 mph.

Independence Day: Mostly sunny, with a high near 83. South wind 5 to 11 mph.
Thursday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 64.

Friday: Sunny, with a high near 85.
Friday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 68.

Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 88. Breezy.

After many months of drought followed by Iowa’s wettest spring on record, the month of June wrapped up as one of the more “normal” months we’ve had in some time. State climatologist Harry Hillaker says the past month saw both temperatures and precipitation that were nearly dead on. Rainfall averaged about 5″ for the month and 5.02″ is normal for June, while temperatures were only about a half-degree cooler than normal. While the precipitation may have balanced out statewide as being near-average, Hillaker says the amount of rainfall some areas of Iowa received during the month was anything but common.

Northeastern parts of Iowa saw a lot of rain and flooding while one community in Allamakee County had almost 14″ of rain during June. That’s a far cry from many parts of southeast Iowa and far western Iowa, some areas of which only got 2″ of rain during the month, less than half the norm. Likewise, while temperatures averaged out to being essentially normal for June, the mercury was up and down all during the month.

June started off very cool with the first 10 days of the month all below-normal while much of the rest of the month was abnormally warm. Temperature extremes during the month ranged from 94-degrees in Sioux City on June 21st down to only 37-degrees on June 3rd in Elkader, one of the coldest June readings in Iowa in many years. As for the month ahead, Hillaker says Iowa could be in for near-normal temperatures and precipitation during July. High temperatures this week will be in the 70s and 80s. Last year at this time, highs soared in the 90s across the state in what was the beginning of one of the hottest Julys in Iowa history.

The month of June was slightly wetter and cooler than normal, here in Atlantic. According to weather data compiled here at the KJAN studios (The official National Weather Service reporting site for Atlantic), rainfall for the month amounted to 5.03-inches, which was just .05″ (five one-hundredths of an inch) above the average of 4.98″.

The average high temperature for the month was 80 (normal average is 83), and the average low was 56 (normally, 59). Precipitation thus far this year (from January through June, including melted snowfall), amounts to 18.68″ (normal precip. for the period is 16.91″).

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