Today: Sunny, with a high near 75. North wind around 6 mph becoming east northeast in the afternoon.
Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 54. South southeast wind 3 to 5 mph.
Monday: Increasing clouds, with a high near 76. South southeast wind 5 to 13 mph.
Monday Night: A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 7pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 63. South southeast wind around 10 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tuesday: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 82. South wind around 11 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tuesday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 1am. Partly cloudy, with a low around 65. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Wednesday: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 83.
Yesterday’s High in Atlantic was 81. We received .16” rain, Saturday. Our Low 49. Last year on this date our High was 78 and the Low was 54. The record High in Atlantic on this date was 100 in 1934. The Record Low was 36 in 1907.
The just wrapped-up month of May, in Atlantic, was cooler than normal, and much wetter than average. The average High last month was 69.6 degrees, and the average Low was 47.6. Typically, the average High in Atlantic is 73.1 degrees, the average Low is 49.1. We typically also received 4.32-inches of rain in May, but last month we were 2.8-inches above the norm, at 6.9 inches.
Looking ahead to the Month of June: The Average High is 82.7, the average Low is 58.8, and rainfall normally amounts to 4.98 inches.
Today: Partly cloudy to cloudy w/scattered showers & thunderstorms. High 78. S-NW @ 10-20.
Tonight: P/Cldy. Low 50.
Sunday: Mostly sunny. High 76. NE @ 5-10.
Monday: P/Cldy. High near 80.
Tuesday: Variably cloudy w/scattered shwrs & tstrms. High around 85.
Yesterday’s High in Atlantic was 83. Our Low 54. Last year on this date our High was 93 and the Low was 62. The record High in Atlantic on this date was 99 in 1934. The Record Low was 36 in 1956.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The National Weather Service has confirmed seven tornadoes hit Iowa as storms raked the state earlier this week. The Des Moines Register reports that all the twisters that hit Wednesday were weak, with winds under 95 mph. The weather service confirmed an EF-1 tornado in Poweshiek County that injured a man and damaged a farmstead near Barnes City. The other six confirmed tornadoes, all classified as EF-0, made brief touchdowns in Hardin County near Owasa, Eldora and north of Iowa Falls, and Sac, Pocahontas and Humboldt counties. No injuries and minimal damage was reported from those twisters.
National Weather Service meteorologist Craig Cogil in Des Moines says the weakest confirmed Iowa tornado from Wednesday had wind speeds that topped out at 70 mph.
Today: Areas of fog this morning; Partly cloudy. High 84. W @ 10-15.
Tonight: P/Cldy to cldy. Low 63. S @ 5-10.
Saturday: P/Cldy to cloudy w/scattered shwrs & tstrms. High around 78. S-NW @ 10-15.
Sunday: P/Cldy. High 76.
Monday: P/Cldy to Cldy. High near 80.
Yesterday’s High in Atlantic was 77. We received .05” of rain after 7-a.m. Thursday. Our Low this morning 53. Last year on this date our High was 93 and the Low was 60. The record High in Atlantic on this date was 101 in 1934. The Record Low was 31 in 1897.
1210 PM CDT Thu May 30 2019
…CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR FUNNEL CLOUDS…
Current atmospheric conditions support the development of funnel clouds this afternoon. Usually, these funnel clouds can form from showers and weak thunderstorms. These funnels are normally brief, drop only a few hundred feet from the cloud base, and rarely become a tornado or cause damage. However, if one is spotted, please immediately report it to the National Weather Service. If a tornado warning would become necessary, take appropriate action.
Today: Area of morning fog; P/Cldy to Cldy w/isolated showers & thunderstorms. High 74. NW @ 10.
Tonight: Isolate showers & thunderstorms ending. P/Cldy. Low 58. Winds light & variable.
Tomorrow: P/Cldy. High 82. W @ 10-15 mph.
Saturday: P/Cldy to cloudy w/scattered shwrs & tstrms. High around 78.
Sunday: P/Cldy. High around 80.
Yesterday’s High in Atlantic was 73. Our Low this morning 56. The 24-hour rainfall in Atlantic ending at 7-a.m. today, was .22″. Last year on this date our High was 83 and the Low was 65. The record High in Atlantic on this date was 105 in 1934. The Record Low was 33 in 1930.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — After several quiet years, tornadoes have erupted in the United States over the last two weeks as a volatile mix of warm, moist air from the Southeast and persistent cold from the Rockies clashed and stalled over the Midwest. On Monday, the U.S. tied its current record of 11 consecutive days with at least eight tornadoes confirmed on each of those days, said Patrick Marsh, warning coordination meteorologist for the federal Storm Prediction Center. The previous 11-day stretch of at least eight tornadoes per day ended on June 7, 1980. “We’re getting big counts on a lot of these days and that is certainly unusual,” Marsh said.
The National Weather Service had already received at least 27 more reports of tornadoes Tuesday, suggesting that the record for consecutive days would be broken once the official totals are in. The weather service has received 934 tornado reports so far this year, up from the yearly average of 743 observed tornadoes. More than 500 of those reports came in the last 30 days. The actual number is likely lower, however, because some of the reports probably come from different witnesses who spot the same twister.
The U.S. has experienced a lull in the number of tornadoes since 2012, with tornado counts tracking at or below average each year and meteorologists still working to figure out why. “A lot of people are trying to answer that, but there’s no definitive answer,” Marsh said. The recent surge in tornado activity over the past two weeks was driven by high pressure over the Southeast and an unusually cold trough over the Rockies that forced warm, moist air into the central U.S., sparking repeated severe thunderstorms and periodic tornadoes. “Neither one of these large systems —the high over the Southeast or the trough over the Rockies— are showing signs of moving,” Marsh said. “It’s a little unusual for them to be so entrenched this late in the season.”
Those conditions are ripe for the kind of tornadoes that have swept across the Midwest in the last two weeks, said Cathy Zapotocny, a meteorologist for the weather service in Valley, Nebraska. Zapotocny said the unstable atmosphere helped fuel many of the severe winter storms and subsequent flooding that ravaged Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri earlier this year.
“We’ve been stuck in this pattern since February,” she said. Zapotocny said the number of tornadoes this year was “basically normal” until the surge this week. May is typically the month with the highest incidence of tornadoes, usually in the Plains and Midwestern states collectively known as Tornado Alley, where most of this year’s twisters have hit.
Most of the confirmed tornadoes were rated as less-intense EF0, EF1 and EF2s on the Enhanced Fujita Scale. But 23 were classified as EF3 tornadoes, with wind speeds of 136-165 mph. The strongest confirmed tornado this year was the EF4 tornado that killed 23 people in Alabama in March. So far this year, 38 people have died in 10 tornadoes in the United States, including a combined seven within the last week in Iowa, Missouri, Oklahoma and Ohio. The relative quiet in recent years followed the massive tornado that killed 161 people and injured more than 1,100 in Joplin, Missouri, in 2011. The EF5 storm packed winds in excess of 200 mph and was on the ground for more than 22 miles.
Scientists also say climate change is responsible for more intense and more frequent extreme weather such as storms, droughts, floods and fires, but without extensive study they cannot directly link a single weather event to the changing climate. Monday’s outbreak was unusual because it occurred over a particularly wide geographic area. Eight states were affected by two regional outbreaks, in the high Plains and the Ohio River Valley. Tornadoes strafed the Kansas City metropolitan area straddling Kansas and Missouri Tuesday night, barely a week after a massive tornado ripped through the Missouri state capital of Jefferson City.
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