351 AM CST FRI DEC 7 2012

TODAY…CLOUDY. HIGH IN THE MID 40S. EAST WIND NEAR 10 MPH.

TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY THROUGH MIDNIGHT THEN BECOMING PARTLY CLOUDY. LOW IN THE MID 20S. NORTHEAST WIND NEAR 5 MPH.

SATURDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. HIGH IN THE UPPER 40S. EAST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH SHIFTING TO THE SOUTHEAST IN THE AFTERNOON.

SATURDAY NIGHT…CLOUDY. A CHANCE OF RAIN THROUGH MIDNIGHT…THEN A CHANCE OF SNOW AND RAIN AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOW IN THE LOWER 30S. SOUTH WIND 5 TO 10 MPH SHIFTING TO THE SOUTHWEST AFTER MIDNIGHT. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 50 PERCENT.

SUNDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A CHANCE OF SNOW IN THE MORNING…THEN SCATTERED FLURRIES IN THE AFTERNOON. WINDY…COLDER. HIGH IN THE LOWER 30S. NORTHWEST WIND 15 TO 25 MPH INCREASING TO 25 TO 30 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON. GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH. CHANCE OF SNOW 40 PERCENT.

SUNDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. BREEZY. MUCH COLDER. SCATTERED FLURRIES THROUGH MIDNIGHT. LOW 5 TO 10 ABOVE.

MONDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGH IN THE MID 20S.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – An ad for a fast food restaurant back in the mid 1980’s asked the question “Where’s the Beef?”  These days, people in the Midwest are asking, “Where’s the snow?”  Cities all across the region are setting records for the lack of the white stuff.  Lincoln, NE, is seeing its 297th day in a row without measurable snow. The former record was 295 snow-free days in 2004.

The National Weather Service says the 285 snowless days as of Wednesday in Omaha breaks the record 284 days that ended Dec. 30, 2006.  The Des Moines, Iowa, record of 277 days set in 1889 is being matched today (Thursday).   Elsewhere in the Midwest, Chicago and Milwaukee have yet to have their first measurable snow of the season.

But good news may be ahead for winter wonderland fans: The service says snow is in the forecasts for Saturday night or Sunday in Nebraska and Iowa, the next day in Chicago.

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340 AM CST THU DEC 6 2012

TODAY...MOSTLY CLOUDY. ISOLATED LIGHT SHOWERS IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGH IN THE LOWER 50S. SOUTHWEST WIND 5 TO 15 MPH SHIFTING TO THE NORTHWEST 5 TO 10 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON. CHANCE OF SHOWERS 20 PERCENT.

TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF LIGHT RAIN THROUGH MIDNIGHT. COLDER. LOW IN THE LOWER 30S. NORTHEAST WIND NEAR 5 MPH.

FRIDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. HIGH IN THE MID 40S. EAST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.

FRIDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY THROUGH MIDNIGHT THEN BECOMING PARTLY CLOUDY. LOW IN THE MID 20S. NORTHEAST WIND NEAR 5 MPH.

SATURDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF LIGHT RAIN IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGH IN THE LOWER 40S. SOUTHEAST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.

SATURDAY NIGHT…CLOUDY WITH A 50 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN AND SNOW. LOW IN THE UPPER 20S.

SUNDAY…CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW. COLDER. HIGH IN THE LOWER 30S.

SUNDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. BREEZY…COLDER. LOW 10 TO 15.

October broke a string of drier than normal months, but State Climatologist Harry Hillaker says the wet trend didn’t last long as November turned dry again. “Statewide average precipitation was just a little bit over an inch — one-point-seven inches to be exact,” Hillaker says. “And that’s basically just a little bit better than half of what’s normal for the month of November. And definitely not what we want to be seeing given the dry weather we’ve already had here in 20012.”

In Atlantic, we received Six-tenths of an inch of precipitation in November, which was .83” below normal. Hillaker says only a few areas of the state saw better than average precipitation. “Kind of along a line from south-central up into northeast Iowa,” Hillaker says. But he says the northwest half of the state was especially dry, with some areas seeing only about three-tenths of an inch of rain.

The air was drier and warmer in November. “The month is going to end up being about two-and-a-half degrees warmer than normal, and we’re actually split fairly evenly as far as cooler and warmer than usual days. But the half that were warmer, some of them were way warmer than normal, and so the month as a whole is going to be a little big on the warm side for November, but nothing unusual as far as weather rankings go,” according to Hillaker.

The average high for the month in Atlantic was 53-degrees, which was 5-degrees warmer than normal. The average low was 27, which was 1-degree warmer than normal. The warmest day was Nov. 10^th, when Atlantic reached 75-degrees. The coolest high for the month was 30-degrees on the 20^th. That same date saw the coldest low, at 6-degrees above zero. The warmest temperature for the month in Iowa was 79 degrees on November 10 at Little Sioux in Harrison County, while Stanley in Buchanan County hit five degrees for the low on November 27th.

(Radio Iowa & KJAN News Director Ric Hanson compiled the weather data)

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358 AM CST WED DEC 5 2012

TODAY…PARTLY SUNNY. BREEZY. HIGH IN THE MID 50S. SOUTHEAST WIND 10 TO 20 MPH.

TONIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. NOT AS COOL. LOW IN THE LOWER 40S. SOUTH WIND 10 TO 15 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 25 MPH.

THURSDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF LIGHT RAIN IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGH IN THE LOWER 50S. SOUTH WIND NEAR 10 MPH.

THURSDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF LIGHT RAIN THROUGH MIDNIGHT. LOW IN THE MID 30S. NORTHEAST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.

FRIDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGH IN THE LOWER 40S. NORTH WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.

FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOW IN THE UPPER 20S. HIGH AROUND 40.

SATURDAY NIGHT…CLOUDY WITH A 50 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN. LOW IN THE LOWER 30S.

SUNDAY…CLOUDY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW. HIGH IN THE MID 30S.

The National Weather Service says Iowa experienced unseasonably warm temperatures on Monday, as southwesterly winds increased ahead of an approaching cold front. Many locations broke their daily high temperatures, and several tied their records for the highest temperature ever recorded on that date, in December. Among the locations where the high was tied, was in Atlantic, where we hit 63-degrees at 11-a.m., here at the KJAN studios, the Official NWS reporting site for Atlantic. Our high tied the record first set 50-years ago (1962). Today’s predicted high of 58 would fall about 8-degrees shy of tying the record for December 4^th.

High temperatures Monday ranged from 62-degrees in Omaha to 72 in Burlington. Des Moines topped out at 69-degrees, which tied the record set in 1984. The highest temperature ever recorded anywhere in Iowa during the month of December is 74-degrees in Thurman, on Dec. 6^th, 1939, a day on which many areas of western Iowa established December warmth records that still stand today. On that date, Atlantic hit 69 degrees.

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