Today: Showers and thunderstorms ending this morning. Becoming partly cloudy late this afternoon. High 80. N wind @ 5-10.
Tonight: Fair to p/cldy. Low around 56. Winds light and variable.
Tomorrow: P/Cldy. High 82. North wind 5-10 mph.
Monday: P/Cldy. High around 84.
Tuesday: P/Cldy. High near 86.
Friday’s High in Atlantic was 87. Our Low this morning, 68. Rainfall up until 7-a.m. (24-hour total) amounted to 1.28 inches at the KJAN studios. Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 85 and the Low was 53. The Record High on this date was 104 in 1955. The Record Low was 39 in 1971.
**Massena reported 3.04 inches of rain from 7-a.m. Friday until 7-a.m. today (Saturday).
Today: **Air Quality Alert until 4-p.m. for areas of wildfire smoke** Partly cloudy w/scattered showers & thunderstorms. High 84. E @ 10.
Tonight: Mostly cloudy w/showers & thunderstorms. Heavy rain is possible. Low around 67. N @ 5-10 mph.
Tomorrow: Cldy to P/Cldy w/showers & thunderstorms ending. Some heavy rain is possible. High near 80. N @ 10.
Sunday: P/Cldy. High 82.
Monday: P/Cldy. High 84.
Thursday’s High in Atlantic was 94. Our Low this morning, was 68. Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 86 and the Low was 59. The Record High on this date was 102 in 1931 & 1947. The Record Low was 39 in 1971.
Skyscan Forecast Thursday, July 29, 2021 Dan Hicks
**Heat Advisories in place for area counties south of I-80 until 7 or 9 p.m.**
Today: Partly cloudy. A few isolated showers and thunderstorms. S switching to the N @ 10. High 92.
Tonight: Partly cloudy. NE @ 5. Low 68.
Friday: Partly cloudy to cloudy. ESE @ 10. Scattered showers and thunderstorms. High 85.
Friday Night: Scattered showers and thunderstorms. Low 64.
Saturday: Partly cloudy to cloudy. Scattered showers and thunderstorms in the morning. High 82.
Sunday: Partly cloudy. High 82.
Yesterday’s high was 94. Last night’s low was 74. This day last year we had a high of 89 and a low of 68. The all-time record high for today’s date is 102 set in 1917. Record low was 46 in 1952. Sunset tonight is at 8:41 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow will be at 6:13 a.m.
Today: *HEAT ADVISORY from 10-am to 9-pm*Mostly sunny, with a high near 98. Heat index values as high as 105. S/SW @ 10-15 mph.
Tonight: Clear to partly cloudy. Low around 74. S @ 5-10 mph.
Tomorrow: P/Cldy w/isolated showers & thunderstorms possible. High around 93. Heat index values as high as 101. SW-N @ 5-10.
Friday: P/Cldy to Cldy w/a chance of showers and thunderstorms. High near 87.
Saturday: P/Cldy to Cldy w/a chance of showers and thunderstorms. High 83.
Tuesday’s High in Atlantic was 92. Our Low was 64. Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 87 and the Low was 57. The Record High on this date was 105 in 1935. The Record Low was 43 in 2013.
Today: Mostly sunny. High 95. SW @ 10-15.
Tonight: Fair to partly cloudy. Low 72. S @ 5.
Tomorrow: Mostly Sunny. High 98. EXCESSIVE HEAT WATCH from 10-a.m. to 8-p.m. Wednesday. Hea index as high as 103. SW @10-15.
Thursday: P/Cldy w/isolated showers & thunderstorms possible. High near 93.
Friday: P/Cldy w/scattered showers and thunderstorms. High 87.
Monday’s High in Atlantic was 89. Our Low was 56. Last year on this date, the High in Atlantic was 89 and the Low was 57. The Record-High was 105 in 1930, and the Record Low was 41 in 2013.
With excessive heat expected to persist through this workweek, facilities in Cass County have opened their doors to people who need a break from the extreme heat. Libraries in Cass County will be available as cooling stations during their regular operating hours throughout this week. The Nishna Valley YMCA in Atlantic will also serve as a Cooling Station. SWIPCO Transit Director Mark Lander says SWIPCO “will provide free rides this week for folks that need to get to cooling stations. All they have to do is call for a ride and tell us they need to go to a cooling station.” Call (712)-243-4196 if you need a ride to a cooling center.
Cass County Emergency Management Coordinator Mike Kennon would like to thank the area libraries, the YMCA and their staffs for providing this important service. “We are heading into a stretch of hot temperatures and very high heat indexes for the region. Drink plenty of fluids, avoid strenuous outdoor activity during the heat of the day, stay out of the sun, and check on relatives, neighbors, the elderly and pets. Anyone overcome by heat should be moved to a cool and shaded location. Heat stroke is an emergency…call 9-1-1.”
(Radio Iowa) – With last year’s derecho, Iowans learned the hard way that highly destructive weather events can be something other that tornadoes or floods. Technically, the derecho was a severe thunderstorm, the most destructive thunderstorm in U-S history. National Weather Service meteorologist Alex Krull says they’re soon adding severe thunderstorms — and, thus, any future derecho — to an important alert system.Krull says, “Any severe thunderstorms that we believe will produce damaging wind gusts in excess of 80 miles per hour or produce hail sizes baseball or larger will now activate the wireless emergency alerts on your cell phones.”
Starting August 2nd, the National Weather Service will be able to better convey the severity and potential impacts from major thunderstorms to the public — in seconds. “Now, they will activate the wireless emergency alerts on your mobile phones,” Krull says. “This will occur for all tornado warnings, as has been in the past few years, for flash flood warnings that are either deemed to be considerable or catastrophic, and now for severe thunderstorm warnings as well.”
On average, only about ten-percent of all severe thunderstorms reach the “destructive” category, things like a derecho or a “supercell” storm. When the rare ones hit, people need to know — and right away — so the alert system is being expanded. “For most cell phones, it should automatically happen,” Krull says. “Some folks do have the alerts turned off on their cell phones, depending on whether you’re using an iPhone or some kind of Android device, you may want to check the settings for what your wireless emergency alerts are set to.”
The powerful derecho that struck August 10th of 2020 packed winds up to 140 miles an hour — the equivalent of a category four hurricane — and it caused more than 13-billion dollars damage, most of it in Iowa. The storm started causing havoc in western Iowa and moved quickly eastward, doing its worst destruction in the Cedar Rapids area, eventually dissipating in Illinois. In many respects, it was like having a 150-mile long tornado that was 50 miles wide.
Today: Partly-to-mostly sunny. High 92. S @ 5-10.
Tonight: Fair to partly cloudy. Low around 68. South wind 5-10.
Tomorrow: Mostly Sunny, with a high near 95. Heat index values as high as 103. S @ 5-10.
Wednesday: Sunny and hot, with a high near 98. (Excessive Heat Watch in effect )
Thursday: P/Cldy w/a slight chance of isolated showers and thunderstorms. High 94.
Sunday’s High in Atlantic was 88. Our Low this morning, 56. Last year on this date, the High in Atlantic was 80 and the Low was 68. The Record-High was 109 in 1936, and the Record Low was 43 in 1962.
Today: Patchy fog before 7am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 90. Light east southeast wind.
Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 63. Light south southeast wind.
Monday: Sunny, with a high near 91. Calm wind becoming south 5 to 9 mph in the morning.
Monday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 66. South wind 5 to 7 mph.
Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 94. Calm wind becoming south southwest 5 to 8 mph in the morning.
Tuesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 69.
Wednesday: Sunny and hot, with a high near 97.
Saturday’s High in Atlantic was 91. Our Low this morning, 61. Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 93 and the Low was 76. The Record High on today’s date (And ALL-TIME record High in Atlantic), was 117 in 1936. The Record Low was 44 in 1894.
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