Today: Light rain/showers ending; Partly cloudy. High 74. SE @ 10.
Tonight: Mostly clear. Low 50. S @ 5.
Tomorrow: P/Cldy & windy. High 79. SW @ 10-20.
Wednesday: Sunny & windy. High 83.
Thursday: Sunny & windy. High 79.

Sunday’s High in Atlantic was 75. The Low was 46. We received .18″ of rain early this morning.  Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 73 and the Low was 30. The Record High on this date was 94 in 1930. The Record Low was 17 in 1989.

Today: Partly sunny, with a high near 71. Breezy, with a south wind 10 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph.
Tonight: A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 4am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 48. South wind 6 to 10 mph.
Monday: A 20 percent chance of showers between 8am and 9am. Mostly sunny, with a high near 72. South southeast wind around 7 mph.
Monday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 48. South wind 7 to 10 mph.
Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 79. Breezy, with a south southwest wind 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph.
Tuesday Night: Clear, with a low around 56. Windy.
Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 82. Windy.

Saturday’s High in Atlantic was 71. The Low was 22. Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 61 and the Low was 19. The Record High on this date was 85 in 1977. The Record Low was 14 in 2016.

Skyscan Forecast  Saturday, April 8, 2023  Austin Romer

Today: Mostly sunny. S @ 20. High 69.

Tonight: Mostly cloudy. S @ 15. Low 45.

Easter Sunday: Cloudy. Slight chance of showers. S @ 20. H 68.

Sunday Night: Mostly cloudy. Chance of showers and thunderstorms. S @ 5-10. Low 49.

Monday: Mostly sunny. S @ 10. High 69.

Tuesday: Mostly sunny. S @ 15. High 77.

Yesterday’s high was 69 and the low was 22. This day last year the high was 52 and the low was 18. The all-time record high was 89 set in 1931 and the record low was 14 in 2016. Sunrise this morning is 6:53 a.m. and sunset tonight is 7:52 p.m.

Today: Sunny, with a high near 66. Breezy, with a south southwest wind 7 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph.
Tonight: Clear, with a low around 38. Breezy, with a south wind 13 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph.
Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 68. Breezy, with a south wind 14 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph.
Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 42. South southeast wind around 14 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph.
Sunday: Partly sunny, with a high near 69. Breezy.
Sunday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 48.
Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 71.

Thursday’s High in Atlantic was 57. The Low was 13. Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 43 and the Low was 31. The Record High on this date was 85 in 2000. The Record Low was 10 in 2018.

Today: Sunny, with a high near 56. West southwest wind 6 to 10 mph.
Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 32. South wind 8 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph.
Friday: Sunny, with a high near 65. Breezy, with a south southwest wind 8 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Friday Night: Clear, with a low around 40. South wind 13 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph.
Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 69. Breezy, with a south wind 13 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph.
Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 46. Breezy.
Sunday: Partly sunny, with a high near 73. Breezy.

Wednesday’s High in Atlantic was 46. The Low was 13. Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 51 and the Low was 37. The Record High on this date was 89 in 1972. The Record Low was 6 in 1982.

(Radio Iowa) – A survey team from the National Weather Service is looking over the damage from a tornado that touched down in south-central Iowa last (Tuesday) night near Knoxville and Pleasantville. Meteorologist Donna Dubberke, at the Weather Service office in metro Des Moines, says there were multiple reports of funnel clouds and tornadoes in Marion and Warren counties, but it appears it was a single twister that reached the ground. “At this point, we think it’s just one,” Dubberke says. “Once we get out, today is a lot about piecing all those puzzle pieces together to see exactly how it developed and from the video and what we’ve seen, it looks like it was one.”

There are dozens of reports of hail during last night’s storm from locations scattered across a wide section of Iowa, damaging the siding and roofs of houses, smashing windows and ruining vehicles. “Pretty much diagonally, from the southwest corner of the state up to the northeast, there were hail reports,” Dubberke says. “Some of the larger hail reports were up to three inches in diameter which is very large, so baseball size and larger. The Osceola area had quite a bit, Davenport had some reports of that as well.” The Quad Cities reported peak wind gusts of 90 miles an hour, straight-line winds which broke off tree limbs and caused power outages. Despite the wreckage, last night’s storms were not as severe as last Friday’s barrage.

Funnel cloud near Melcher Dallas. Photo by Tim Johnson, submitted to the National Weather Service.

“With widespread areas certainly, for the hail and a lot of several rounds of storms,” she says, “so it was longer-lasting in some ways but did not have quite the intensity that the one on Friday had.” That previous storm spun off at least 16 tornadoes and left 18 Iowa counties declared disaster areas, with at least nine people injured. Dubberke says the storms should be gone for a while now and calmer, springtime weather is ahead. “The rest of this week and into the weekend, it looks nice, a warming trend,” Dubberke says. “Today, it’ll be the coldest day, then warming a little bit each day, and tomorrow and Friday, we should have some nice sunshine. Next chance of rain is on Sunday and as of right now, it doesn’t look all that impactful.”

Temperatures through the weekend are forecast to warm into the 60s and 70s, with 80s likely next week.

(Des Moines, Iowa) – The National Weather Service, in it’s report on storms that occurred Tuesday, April 4, 2023, said that in southwest Iowa, there were a few relayed reports of hail, but no tornadoes. Here are some of the storm spotter/law enforcement reports:

One-half inch diameter hail 5 miles N/NE of Afton (Union County)

Nickel-size hail fell in Orient (Adair County)

1.75-inch hail fell in Bedford (Taylor County)

1.75-inch hail 4-miles E. of New Market (Taylor Co.)

1 .5 diameter hail 2 mile E. of New Market

One-half inch diameter hail in Mount Ayr (Ringgold County)

One-inch hail was reported 3 miles W/NW of Orient (Adair County)

1.75 inch diameter hail in St. Charles (Madison County)

One-inch diameter hail was reported 3 miles south/southwest of Bedford (Taylor County), and Nickel-size hail was reported to have fallen in Nodaway (Adams County)

Nickel-size hail was reported 3-miles east of Orient, in Adair County

Golf ball size hail fell in Orient

Today: Partly sunny, with a high near 45. Windy, with a west northwest wind around 23 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 23. Blustery, with a west northwest wind 7 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph.

Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 56. West southwest wind 7 to 11 mph.

Friday: Sunny, with a high near 65.

Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 69. Windy.

Tuesday’s High in Atlantic was 81. The Low was 31. Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 59 and the Low was 38. The Record High on this date was 88 in 2000. The Record Low was 14 in 1920.

(Radio Iowa) – State climatologist Justin Glisan says snow in March made for a split in temperatures in the state. “We had across the state if you look at temperatures, near normal conditions in eastern Iowa, and then slightly cooler conditions as we move northwest where we had more snowpack,” Glisan says, “so the statewide average temperature came in right about 34 degrees, and that’s about two and a half degrees below average.”There wasn’t enough snowfall though to help March hit its average for precipitation. “About one and a half inches of snow liquid equivalent and then rainfall and that’s about a half inch below average,” he says.

Glisan says the long-term outlook as we start April shows the potential for more rain.”For the month of April, we’re looking at an elevated signal for wetter conditions across basically much of the eastern three quarters of the state — equal chances along the western border. Temperature wise, no clear guidance there,” he says. “Slightly elevated for cooler conditions across northern Iowa and then E-C (equal chances) for the rest of the state.”

Glisan says there’s a short-term indication of drier conditions in April — which would help farmers itching to get into the fields.

(Atlantic, Iowa/KJAN) – The month of March in Atlantic came to a close with weather stats averaging lower than normal. High average High for the month in Atlantic (as recorded here at KJAN), was 47.8-degrees, which was cooler the norm of 48.3. The average Low for March 2023 in Atlantic was 22.6-degrees, which came in a little less than 4-degrees below normal. The warmest day of the month was on the 31st, at 75-degrees. The coldest morning was on the 18th, when the thermometer bottomed-out at 8-degrees.

And, precipitation for the month amounted to 1.01-inches (including rain, melted snow and mixed precip.), compared to the norm of 2.38-inches. We received a total of 6-inches of snow, with the greatest amounts occurring March 8th & 9th.

Today: **RED FLAG WARNING from Noon until 8-p.m.** A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 5pm. Some of the storms could be severe. Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a high near 81. Windy, with an east northeast wind 14 to 23 mph becoming south in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 32 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight: A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 11pm. Some of the storms could be severe. Partly cloudy, with a low around 31. Windy, with a south southwest wind 16 to 22 mph becoming west northwest after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 33 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 44. Windy, with a west northwest wind 21 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 34 mph.
Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 56. West wind 9 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Friday: Sunny, with a high near 66. Breezy.