AREA COUNTIES:AUDUBON-GUTHRIE-DALLAS-CASS-ADAIR-MADISON-ADAMS– 326 PM CST WED JAN 1 2014 ...WIND CHILL ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO NOON CST THURSDAY…

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS ISSUED A WIND CHILL ADVISORY WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO NOON CST THURSDAY.

* WIND CHILL VALUES…WIND CHILL VALUES WILL BOTTOM OUT BETWEEN 20 BELOW SOUTH AND 30 BELOW NORTH BY EARLY THURSDAY MORNING.

* IMPACTS…BITTERLY COLD TEMPERATURES AND WIND CHILLS WILL MAKE ALL OUTDOOR ACTIVITY DANGEROUS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS… A WIND CHILL ADVISORY MEANS THAT VERY COLD AIR AND STRONG WINDS WILL COMBINE TO GENERATE LOW WIND CHILLS. THIS WILL RESULT IN FROST BITE AND LEAD TO HYPOTHERMIA IF PRECAUTIONS ARE NOT TAKEN. IF YOU MUST VENTURE OUTDOORS…MAKE SURE YOU WEAR A HAT AND GLOVES.

MONONA-HARRISON-SHELBY-POTTAWATTAMIE-MONTGOMERY-PAGE COUNTIES… …WIND CHILL ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 11 AM CST THURSDAY…

AREA COUNTIES: MONONA-HARRISON-SHELBY-POTTAWATTAMIE-MILLS-MONTGOMERY-FREMONT-PAGE..    840 AM CST WED JAN 1 2014

.NOW…
AN AREA OF LIGHT TO MODERATE SNOW IS MOVING THROUGH EASTERN
NEBRASKA AND WESTERN IOWA. THE SNOW IS BEGINNING TO WANE FROM
NORFOLK AND MACY. AREAS IN BETWEEN AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM
COLUMBUS TO FREMONT TO OMAHA AND OAKLAND IOWA SHOULD GENERALLY BE
DONE WITH THEIR SNOW BY LATE MORNING WITH MOST ACCUMULATIONS FROM
UNDER AN INCH TO 2 INCHES. SOUTH OF THIS LINE…THE SNOW WILL LAST
INTO THE AFTERNOON. THERE MAY BE SOME LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS
TOWARD THE KANSAS AND MISSOURI BORDERS SHOULD THE BAND INTENSIFY
THERE.

AREA COUNTIES: CRAWFORD-CARROLL-AUDUBON-GUTHRIE-DALLAS-CASS-ADAIR-MADISON-ADAMS-UNION-TAYLOR-RINGGOLD-

636 AM CST WED JAN 1 2014

…LIGHT TO MODERATE SNOW WILL PRODUCE SLICK ROADS THIS MORNING…

SNOW WILL CONTINUE ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST IOWA THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS. ALTHOUGH THERE HAS YET TO BE MUCH IN THE WAY OF ACCUMULATIONS…ROADS HAVE QUICKLY BECOME JUST SNOW COVERED AND SLICK IN MANY AREAS. SLOW DOWN AND PLAN FOR EXTRA TRAVEL TIME THIS NEW YEARS MORNING. ACCUMULATIONS WILL GENERALLY REACH ONE TO TWO INCHES BY AFTERNOON.

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347 AM CST WED JAN 1 2014

TODAY…CLOUDY. SNOW IN THE MORNING…THEN A CHANCE OF SNOW IN THE AFTERNOON. COLDER. SNOW ACCUMULATION AROUND 2 INCHES. HIGH AROUND 10. NORTHEAST WIND 10 TO 15 MPH. CHANCE OF SNOW 90 PERCENT.

TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. BITTERLY COLD. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW IN THE EVENING. LOW 5 TO 10 BELOW. NORTH WIND 5 TO 15 MPH. WIND CHILL READINGS 15 TO 20 BELOW.

THURSDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. VERY COLD. HIGH 5 TO 10 ABOVE. NORTH WIND 5 TO 10 MPH. LOWEST WIND CHILL READINGS 15 TO 20 BELOW IN THE MORNING.

THURSDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOW ZERO TO 5 BELOW. SOUTH WIND NEAR 10 MPH. LOWEST WIND CHILL READINGS AROUND 15 BELOW AFTER MIDNIGHT.

FRIDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. BREEZY…WARMER. HIGH IN THE MID 20S. SOUTH WIND 10 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 30 MPH. LOWEST WIND CHILL READINGS 15 TO 20 BELOW IN THE MORNING.

FRIDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. NOT AS COLD. LOW IN THE LOWER 20S.

SATURDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW. HIGH IN THE UPPER 20S.

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(Updated 3:46 am CST Dec 31, 2013)

Today: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 25. Wind chill values as low as 5. Calm wind becoming southeast 5 to 9 mph in the morning.
Tonight: A 40 percent chance of snow, mainly after 3am. Cloudy, with a low around 11. Wind chill values as low as -5. East northeast wind 9 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

New Year’s Day: Snow likely, mainly before noon. Cloudy, with a high near 15. Wind chill values as low as -5. Northeast wind 7 to 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New snow accumulation of less than one inch possible.
Wednesday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around -2. Wind chill values as low as -15. North wind 8 to 10 mph.

Thursday: Mostly sunny and cold, with a high near 8. North wind 5 to 9 mph becoming calm in the afternoon.
Thursday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around -2.

Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 24. Windy.

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Today: Mostly cloudy. Very cold. High in the lower 20s. Southwest wind 5 to 15 mph.
Tonight: Mostly cloudy then becoming partly cloudy after midnight then becoming mostly cloudy. Low 5 to 10 above. Northwest wind 5 to 15 mph.

Tuesday: Mostly cloudy. High in the mid 20s. Southeast wind near 10 mph.
Tuesday Night: Cloudy with a 20 percent chance of light snow. Low 5 to 10 above. Northeast wind 5 to 10 mph.

New Years Day: Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow. Colder. High around 15.
Wednesday Night: Cloudy with a 30 percent chance of snow. Low zero to 5 above.

Thursday: Mostly cloudy. High 5 to 10 above.

The record high in Iowa in 2013 was 106 degrees — back in May — and the record low a minus 27 just last week. State Climatologist Harry Hillaker says temperatures in Iowa for 2013 have averaged out to slightly below normal. “Rainfall wise, almost right at normal, but as usual, that doesn’t tell the whole story,” Hillaker says. This past spring was very wet and the late summer and early fall were dry, which means precipitation levels for 2013 in Iowa average out to be average, according to Hillaker.

“Overall, though, this year was quite a bit wetter than 2012, thanks to that wet spring,” Hillaker says. “…Going into winter this year with more soil moisture in the ground than we had at this point last year and actually even at this point two years ago as well, so we’re in a little bit better shape in soil moisture now than the last couple of years, but still quite a bit drier than what would be usual going into the winter season.” The months of May and April were the wettest ever recorded in Iowa, while August and September were very dry, but don’t rank as some of the driest ever.

Hillaker says there were pockets of southeast Iowa that were exceptionally dry this summer. “The Burlington area, for example, had just a trace of rainfall for the full month of August which was easily a record low for that area of the state,” Hillaker says, “and there were, you know, scattered areas of the state that set some records as far as low totals in July and August and maybe in a few cases in September, but nothing where the state average was quite that low.” Hillaker uses the phrase “consistently cool” to describe the temperatures recorded in Iowa this past year.

“Got off to a January-February period that was a little bit milder than unusual for mid-winter, but still nothing really out of the ordinary, but then a really cold spring season — especially March and April — and a relatively mild summer as well ’til we got rather late into August where the summer heat finally returned and had a rather warm end to the summer into the early fall,” Hillaker says. “More recently, November and December, of course quite a bit colder than usual once again.” The temperature dropped to 27 degrees below zero on Christmas Eve in Osceola.

“That was easily our lowest temperature of the calendar year and actually, our lowest temperature anywhere in Iowa in almost three years,” Hillaker says. The year’s record high — of 106 degrees — was recorded in Sioux City on May 14th. “Which is about two weeks earlier than we’ve ever seen a temperature that high in the state, but that ended up being the highest reading of the whole year, actually by quite a ways,” Hillaker says. “Most of the state didn’t see triple-digit temperatures.” Hillaker says that 133-degree variation between highs and lows is unique on the planet.

The only other place besides the upper Midwest that sees such wide temperature swings is in Russia. Hillacer says the climates in these two areas are “so contrasting” because they in the middle of a large land mass, without the “moderating” influence of oceans or large lakes. Russia actually straddles two continents and Hillaker says South America isn’t as large as North America, so that’s why temperatures in the southern hemisphere don’t vary that much.

(Radio Iowa)