LaVon Eblen visits with Cass County Extension Youth Coordinator Shelby Williams.
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LaVon Eblen visits with Cass County Extension Youth Coordinator Shelby Williams.
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The Iowa High School Soccer Coaches Association released their weekly boys soccer rankings earlier this week. Follow the link to see the full rankings.
Iowa growers are getting ready for planting season as La Nina conditions fade in the Pacific Ocean and there’s no consensus on what may come next. A La Nina means sea surface temperatures are below long-term trends, bringing cooler weather to our region. Dennis Todey, director of the U-S-D-A’s Midwest Climate Hub in Ames, says there are signs an El Nino is developing.
“There are hints we’re heading back to warmer-than-average sea surface temperatures in the Pacific,” Todey says. “I’m not as convinced about that as some people are. Even if it does go that way, I don’t think we’d be seeing El Nino conditions before the end of the growing season.”
An El Nino means ocean temperatures are averaging above-normal for an extended time, which can bring weather extremes to North America. Todey says an El Nino developing is not in the cards. “It really would be unprecedented,” Todey says. “Not completely unprecedented but unlikely where you go from a strong El Nino to a La Nina and then back to an El Nino in subsequent years. It’s only happened one time in the last century. It’s possible but it seems very unlikely.”
Current trends and long-range forecasts into early summer indicate temperatures and precipitation will be above-normal for much of the Midwest and Northern Plains. The Pacific was in a La Nina phase, or cooling, for the past year or so. That’s reverted to more neutral conditions.
(Radio Iowa)
The Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union released their weekly girls soccer rankings on Wednesday, April 5th.
2017 First Girls Soccer Rankings
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
Class 1A
Schoool | 2016 Record | |
1 | Davenport Assumption | 17-2-1 |
2 | Iowa City Regina | 15-6 |
3 | Waterloo Columbus Catholic | 16-5 |
4 | Nevada | 15-4 |
5 | Gilbert | 15-3 |
6 | North Polk | 16-3 |
7 | Council Bluffs St. Albert | 14-8 |
8 | Center Point-Urbana | 16-4 |
9 | Solon | 11-9 |
10 | Tri-Center | 13-5 |
11 | Central Dewitt | 15-2 |
12 | Denver | 13-6 |
13 | Holy Trinity Catholic | 14-4 |
14 | Underwood | 13-3 |
15 | Beckman Catholic | 12-6 |
Class 2A
1 | North Scott | 14-6 |
2 | Lewis Central | 16-3 |
3 | Pella | 16-5 |
4 | ADM | 20-2 |
5 | Cedar Rapids Xavier | 8-10 |
6 | Bishop Heelan | 14-5 |
7 | Waverly-Shell Rock | 16-4 |
8 | Spencer | 12-4 |
9 | Clear Creek-Amana | 14-6 |
10 | Independence | 12-6 |
11 | Newton | 14-5 |
12 | Winterset | 17-3 |
13 | Marion | 19-6 |
14 | Norwalk | 10-10 |
15 | Burlington Notre Dame | 11-5 |
Class 3A
1 | Ankeny Centennial | 21-1 |
2 | Waukee | 18-3 |
3 | Iowa City West | 18-4 |
4 | West Des Moines Valley | 11-9 |
5 | Bettendorf | 16-3 |
6 | Pleasant Valley | 17-3 |
7 | Dubuque Hempstead | 15-5 |
8 | Cedar Rapids Kennedy | 20-1 |
9 | Johnston | 15-5 |
10 | Muscatine | 10-8 |
11 | Dowling Catholic | 11-8 |
12 | Linn-Mar | 11-8 |
13 | Sioux City East | 15-3 |
14 | Iowa City High | 12-6 |
15 | Ames | 11-7 |
The Union County Sheriff’s Office reports the driver of an SUV was injured early Wednesday morning, when he became confused and ran his vehicle into a building in Afton. 70-year old Larry Clayton, of Thayer, was driving a 2006 Jeep at around 2-a.m. Wednesday and drove onto private property before striking a building at 1780 Old Highway 34, causing extensive damage to the south side of the building.
Clayton suffered possible/unknown injuries and was transported by Law Enforcement to the Greater Regional Medical Center, in Creston. Damage to his SUV was estimated at $5,500, while the building, owned by Dave Larson, of Afton, sustained about $10,000 damage. No citations were issued.
More area and State news from KJAN News Director Ric Hanson.
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SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) – A Sioux City man has been accused of biting his 7-week-old daughter on the face. Court records say 22-year-old Edward Valdez is charged with child endangerment resulting in injury.
A court document says the child was bitten on March 24, when Valdez was alone with her. He told an officer that the girl had been sick and wouldn’t stop crying. Valdez said he became frustrated and bit her right cheek. The document says the bite left a white mark that lasted several days.
Jim Field visits with ISU Field Agronomist Aaron Saeugling about Palmer Amaranth.
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The area’s top news at 7:06-a.m., w/KJAN News Director Ric Hanson
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