Skyscan Forecast  Saturday, May 8, 2021  Dan Hicks

Today: Mostly cloudy. Scattered light rain. E @ 15-25. High 60.

Tonight: Cloudy. Rain. ENE @ 10-20. Low 42.

Sunday: Cloudy with rain ending in the morning. NE @ 10-20. High 56.

Sunday Night: Partly cloudy. NNW @ 5-10. Low 37.

Monday: Partly cloudy. High 62.

Tuesday: Partly cloudy. High 64.

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Today: Partly cloudy. High near 70. W-N @ 10.
Tonight: Mostly cloudy. Low around 45. Wests light & variable.
Saturday: Cldy w/rain. High near 60. SE @ 10.
Sunday: Mostly cloudy w/rain ending in the morning. High 58.
Monday: P/cldy. High 64.

Thursday’s High in Atlantic was 66. Our Low this morning, 42. Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 63 and the Low was 34. The Record High on this date was 95 in 1966. The Record Low was 24 in 1931.

(Radio Iowa) – When you hear the average temperature or rainfall during the weather, that’s typically based on the past three decades of information, and this week the National Weather Service updated that temperature and precipitation data. Doug Kluck, the weather service’s Central Region climate services director, says they roll the averages forward every ten years.

“We’re taking 1991 through 2020 compared to 1981 through 2010, so that’s a ten-year adjustment forward in a 30-year full period,” Kluck says. “We’re going to see how much the climate has changed in those ten years.” Kluck says the new numbers show a cooling trend across the Northern Plains states, which includes Iowa, Minnesota and the Dakotas. “Guess what happened in the last ten years across the Northern Plains, what have we seen up there? An abundance of what? Not necessarily cold air, but an abundance of moisture, right?” Kluck says.

“We’ve had some pretty wet years, let’s say, in the last ten across the Northern Plains, thus, the temperatures are dampened a little bit.” While most of the nation is trending warmer with the shift in the decades of averages, Iowa and its neighbors are seeing a cooling trend. “Other parts of the country, not so much,” he says. “If you go to the West, especially in the Southwest, you’re going to see a lot more increases in temperature when you compare the last 30-year period to the new 30-year period.”

As for the Northern Plains, Kluck says they’re seeing cooler temperatures lingering longer in the spring, with warmer temperatures pushing further into the fall.

Today: Mostly cloudy through mid morning, then becoming partly cloudy. High near 62. N @ 15-25 diminishing this evening.
Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 35. West wind around 5 mph.
Friday: P/Cldy. High 67. W-N @ 10-15.
Saturday: Mostly cloudy w/rain. High near 62. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Sunday: Mo. cldy w/rain ending in the morning. High 62.

Wednesday’s High in Atlantic was 65. Our Low was 28, which broke the record Low for May 5th (29 degrees, set in 1935). We received just a trace of rain. Last year on this date, the High in Atlantic was 63, and the Low was 31. The All-Time Record High here on May 6th, was 97 in 1934, and the Record Low was 23, in 1891.

Today: Partly cloudy to cloudy w/scattered showers late. Winds SE @ 10. High 65.

Tonight: Scattered light showers. Low around 42. NW @ 10.

Tomorrow: Showers ending, becoming P/Cldy. High 62. NW @ 10-20.

Friday: P/Cldy. High near 65.

Saturday: Mo. Cldy w/a chance of rain. High 62.

Tuesday’s High in Atlantic was 65. Our Low this morning (24-hour Low), was 27. Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 59 and the Low was 35. The Record High on this date was 96 in 1909. The Record Low was 29 in 1935.

Today: Partly cloudy. Winds NW @ 10-20 mph. High around 62.

Tonight: Mostly clear w/areas of frost possible Wed. morning. Low around 32.

Tomorrow: P/Cldy to cldy w/a chance of showers, late. High around 64. SE @ 10.

Thursday: Mo. cldy w/showers in the morning. High near 60.

Friday: P/cldy. High 65.

Monday’s High in Atlantic was 71. We received just a trace of precipitation, early. Our Low this morning was 41. Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 56 and the Low was 46. The Record High on this date was 91 in 1918. The Record Low was 18 in 1907.

(Radio Iowa) ) The rare and powerful derecho that rampaged across Iowa last August caused extensive damage to hundreds of thousands of trees, but not all of the wind storm’s damage was negative. Billy Beck, a forestry specialist at the Iowa State University Extension, says the state’s woodland owners -can- recover and make their forests even more resilient than before. “We want to treat this as a forest management opportunity,” Beck says, “and not like an insurmountable setback.” Much like a wildfire can help a forest by clearing out dead trees and undergrowth, the derecho has provided the chance to rebuild some of the state’s key woodlands.

Beck notes oak trees, which are important to Iowa’s environment, love the sunlight. “They actually rely on disturbances such as this that open canopies up and expose young seedlings to sunlight to keep their species on the landscape,” Beck says. “If not, if the canopy closes, a lot of other species that love shade, still good trees but not oaks, will creep up in the understory and eventually take over the canopy.” Diversity is vital in a forest, Beck says, and that includes diversity of species, age, size and structure, as well as distribution on the landscape. He says one plot of forest land in Linn County is a good example of how diversity helped during the derecho.

“This particular property had a lot of younger plantings, a lot of middle age plantings, and some older established forests,” Beck says. “The older established forests were hit pretty hard but the younger and middle age stands of trees that were planted were not. So, this person, although they had some damage, has a forest resource for the future because of their management efforts.” Beck is releasing a series of four short YouTube videos that explain how woodland owners can rebuild after the destructive storm. “There’s really no cookbook method to rebound,” Beck says, “so what these four initial videos were really doing is giving folks a general overview of some big concepts to start thinking about, some resources that are out there that can help them, and just some things to keep their eyes open for following storms.”

Next, Beck plans to release several longer videos that offer more detail about how to start over with woodlands. Iowa has nearly three-million acres of forestland, and saw one-and-three-quarter million acres of forests, wind breaks and urban canopies impacted by the derecho. Iowa’s forestry industry supports 18-thousand jobs and pumps nearly five-billion dollars a year into the economy.

Link to the first of four videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkvaCJrLxMo

Today: Mostly cloudy w/showers & thunderstorms possible this morning. High around 62. N @ 10-20.

Tonight: Partly cloudy. Low near 40. NW @ 5-10.

Tomorrow: P/Cldy. High around 62. N @ 10-15.

Wednesday: P/Cldy to Cldy. High 65.

Thursday: Mo. cldy w/a chance of showers. High around 60.

Sunday’s High in Atlantic was 83. Our Low this morning, 59. We received .03″ of rain overnight. Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 79 and the Low was 50. The Record High on this date was 87 in 1895, 1949 & 1968. The Record Low was 25 in 1900.

Today: Partly sunny & breezy, with a high near 82. South southwest wind 15 to 25 mph.
Tonight: Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 2am. Low around 56. S @ 10-20 mph. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Monday: Showers and thunderstorms likely. High around 61. N @ 15-25. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.
Monday Night: A 50% chance of showers. Low around 44.
Tuesday: Any showers will be ending in the morning; Becoming partly sunny. High 62. N @ 15-25 mph.
Tuesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 39.
Wednesday: A slight chance of showers after 2pm, otherwise mostly sunny, with a high near 63.

Saturday’s High in Atlantic was 87. Our Low this morning, 59. Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 74 and the Low was 44. The Record High on this date was 91 in 1968. The Record Low was 17 in 1908.

The month of April in Atlantic was slightly warmer and much drier than normal, additional more concerns about the drought situation. Weather data compiled here at the KJAN Studios (The official National Weather Service reporting site), show the Average High last month (rounded-off) was 64, compared to the normal average high of 62. Our Average Low in April was 36, which was just one-degree cooler than normal. And, we received a just. 45″ (45 one-hundredths of an inch) of precipitation, which was nearly three-inches below the norm for April.

Our Low of 14 on April 1st, tied the record for that date set in 1924. It was also the coldest day for the month.

Looking ahead to the month of May, here in Atlantic, we can expected an Average High of 73-degrees, an Average Low of 49, and rain typically amounting to 4.32-inches. We’ll let you know if we were on par for those conditions…on June 1^st.