Today: Sunny, with a high near 56. West wind 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 34. Southwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm after midnight.
Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 54. Light west northwest wind becoming northwest 5 to 10 mph in the morning.
Tuesday: A chance of snow before 9am, then a chance of rain and snow between 9am and 10am, then rain likely after 10am. Cloudy, with a high near 43. Breezy, with a northeast wind 8 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Little or no snow accumulation expected.
Tuesday Night: Rain before 7pm, then rain and snow between 7pm and 8pm, then snow after 8pm. Low around 25. Blustery. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Wednesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 37. Breezy.
Wednesday Night: A 20 percent chance of snow after midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 21.
Thanksgiving Day: A chance of rain and snow before 5pm, then a chance of snow. Cloudy, with a high near 37. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Skyscan Forecast Saturday, November 23, 2019 Dan Hicks
Today: Partly cloudy. W @ 10. High 48.
Tonight: Fair to partly cloudy. W @ 5. Low 26.
Sunday: Partly cloudy. Warmer. SW 10-15. High 56.
Monday: Partly cloudy. High 49.
Tuesday: Cloudy. Rain and snow mix. High 36.
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(Radio Iowa) — The latest update from the state finds the amount of precipitation in the “Water Year” for the state is well above normal. The D-N-R’s Tim Hall says the Water Year runs from Iowa from October of last year to the end of September this year. He says it’s defined that way because after September, there’s no moisture that benefits the current growing season. The current water year saw a little more than 42-and-a-half inches of precipitation. “We are about seven inches above average,” Hall says, “if you go back and you look at 24 months — the water years of 2018 and 2019 together — we’re pushing 20 inches above normal for those two year. So, it’s been a very, very wet couple of years.”
The ground is full of water right now, and that can be a positive.”Generally in the fall going into the winter, having a wet soil profile is good — because it benefits us in the spring when the vegetation wants to get kicked off,” according to Hall. But he says if the ground stays saturated and we have a wet spring the wet soil profile can become a bad thing. “There’s sort of some early precautionary flags being raised that we could find ourselves in a flood situation in the spring, depending on what happens in the winter,” Hall says.
Hall says it’s a waiting game that depends on how much snow we get — and how much remains in the spring when it starts to melt. “As we sit here today it could be a good thing — it could be a bad thing. It depends on what happens over the next three or four months,” Hall says. Wet ground delayed planting this last spring and that led to a delayed harvest for this year’s crop. This was the seventh wettest and 45th warmest Water Year among 147 years of Iowa records. The back-to-back water years of 2018 and 2019 was the third wettest combined two years on record.
Today: Partly cloudy. High 44. N winds at 5-10 mph.
Tonight: Partly cloudy to cloudy. Low 27.
Tomorrow: P/Cldy. High 48. W @ 10-15.
Sunday: P/Cldy. High 54.
Monday: Mo. Cldy w/isolated showers possible. High 45.
Thursday’s High in Atlantic was 40. Our Low this morning was 17. Last year on this date, the High in Atlantic was 57 and the Low was 24. The record High for Nov. 22nd in Atlantic, was 69 in 1966. The Record Low was -10 in 1937.
Today: Mostly cloudy w/scattered light rain this morning, & temps falling into the 30’s before rebounding this afternoon to around 42. NW winds at 15-30 mph.
Tonight: Partly cloudy. Low 20. NW @ 5-10.
Tomorrow: P/Cldy. High 44. N @ 5-10.
Saturday: P/Cldy. High 48.
Sunday: P/Cldy. High 54.
Wednesday’s High in Atlantic was 62. Our Low was 30. As of 5-a.m. in Atlantic, we had received .38″ rainfall. Last year on this date, the High was 51 and the Low 20. The All-Time record High in Atlantic on Nov. 21st, was 71 in 1990. The record Low was -14 in 1937.
Today: Partly cloudy to cloudy. High 58. S/SE winds at 15-25 mph.
Tonight: Cloudy w/showers & possible thunderstorms. Low 40. S winds becoming NW @ 10-20.
Tomorrow: Mostly cloudy w/rain ending in the morning. High 42. N @ 15-30.
Friday: P/Cldy. High 44.
Saturday: P/Cldy. High 42.
Tuesday’s High in Atlantic was 58. Our Low, 30. Last year on this date, the High was 38 and the Low 12. The All-Time record High in Atlantic on Nov. 20th, was 75 in 1933. The record Low was -1 in 1937 & 1985.
Today: Partly cloudy. High 58. W-NW winds at 10-15 mph.
Tonight: P/Cldy. Low 37. SE @ 5-10.
Tomorrow: P/Cldy to Cloudy/ High 58. S @ 10-20.
Tom. Night: Showers & possible thunderstorms. Low 37. S/SE winds becoming W/NW after midnight @ 15-25.
Thursday: A chance of rain in the morning; Mo. Cldy. High 42.
Friday: P/Cldy. High 47.
Monday’s High in Atlantic was 54. We received .02″ rain. Our Low this morning 33. Last year on this date, the High was 42 and the Low 11. The All-Time record High in Atlantic on Nov. 19th, was 73 in 1930. The record Low was -1 in 1914.
(Radio Iowa) — The latest spell of cold, wet weather doesn’t bode well for the spring season ahead, as it makes renewed flooding all the more likely early in 2020. Hydrologist Jessica Brooks, at the National Weather Service in the Quad Cities, says she’s concerned because a majority of rivers in the Mississippi River basin are already above normal levels and the soil is still saturated. “Moisture in the soil won’t have the opportunity to dry out before we get into the spring season,” Brooks says. “A lot of it will likely be frozen into the soil once we, well, we are cold right now and are probably starting to see a little bit of the ground starting to freeze, on the top layers anyway.”
Brooks also says the winter outlook is for normal to above-normal amounts of rain and snow. “If there are some things you wanted to make sure you get done before it floods again, maybe it’s time to think about how you should do it now rather than wait until later,” Brooks says. “It’s not a situation yet that we would say start getting your resources ready because it’s going to happen. We’re not confident in that yet.”
Some Iowans are still recovering from this year’s record-breaking flooding along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Key factors to watch in the coming months include: winter and spring precipitation, how wet the snow is, how fast it may melt, and frost depth. The weather service in Davenport will issue its first Spring Flood Outlook on February 13th.
Today: Mostly cloudy w/light rain possible. High 47. SE-NW winds @ 10-20 mph.
Tonight: Any Light rain ending. Becoming partly cloudy. Low 34. NW @ 10-15.
Tomorrow: P/Cldy. High 53. SE @ 10-15.
Wednesday: P/Cldy to Cldy. High 56.
Thursday: Mostly cloudy & windy, w/light rain in the morning. High 43.
Sunday’s High in Atlantic was 47. Our 24-Low was 21 We received .01” rain Sunday morning, after our 7-a.m. gauge reset. Last year on this date, the High in Atlantic was 30 and the Low was 6. The record High for Nov. 18th in Atlantic, was 72 in 1999. The Record Low was 0 in 1891.
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