Today: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 32. Winds S @ 10-20 mph. Wind chill values as low as 5.
Tonight: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 27. West southwest wind 5 to 10 mph.
Tuesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 43. S/SW wind 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Tue. Night: Mostly cloudy & windy. Low around 24. SW-NW @ 15-40 mph.
Wednesday: Partly sunny & windy, with a high near 31.
Wed. Night: A 20% chance of snow after midnight. Low around 17.
Thursday: A 20% chance of snow before noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 29.

Sunday’s High in Atlantic was 19. The Low this morning was 9. Last year on this date (12/8), the High in Atlantic was 59 & the Low was 22. The Record High in Atlantic on Dec. 8th, was 67, in 1946. The Record Low was -18 in 1917 & 1976. Sunrise today: 7:33-a.m.; Sunset is at 4:50-p.m.

Today: Cloudy through mid morning, then gradual clearing, with a temperature falling to around 15 by 5pm. N/NE winds 5-15 mph w/gusts to near 25. Wind chill values as low as 5.

Tonight: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 7. Winds becoming S/SE @ 5-10. Wind chill values as low as zero.

Tomorrow: Partly sunny, with a high near 32. Winds S @ 10-20 mph. Wind chill values as low as 5.

Tom. Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 24.

Tuesday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 42; Mo. cloudy & blustery Tue. night w/a Low of 23.

Wednesday: Mostly cloudy & blustery, with a high near 31.  A 30% chance of snow Wed. night. Low 17.

Thursday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 25.

Saturday’s High in Atlantic was 34. We received .1″ of snow (A trace of precip.). Our Low this morning was 19. Last year on this date (12/7), the High in Atlantic was 59 & the Low was 27. The Record High in Atlantic on Dec. 7th, was 64, in 1894. The Record Low was -15 in 2005. Sunrise today: 7:32-a.m.; Sunset is at 4:50-p.m.

Today: Patchy fog and/or freezing fog this morning; Snow likely, mainly after 2pm. A high near 32. E/SE winds 10-25 mph.  Total daytime snow accumulation of less than one inch possible.
Tonight: A chance of rain and snow before 9pm, then a chance of snow between 9pm and midnight. A low around 13. Winds SE-N @ 15-25 mph. Wind chill values as low as 5. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.
Sunday: Partly sunny, with a temperature falling to around 12 by 5pm. Winds N @ 5-15 w/gusts to near 25. Wind chill values as low as zero.
Sunday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a steady temperature around 9. Wind chill values as low as zero.
Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 31. South winds 5-15 w/gusts to near 20 mph.
Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 21.
Tuesday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 42.

Friday’s High in Atlantic was 38. The Low was 22. Last year on this date (12/6), the High in Atlantic was 44 & the Low was 17. The Record High in Atlantic on Dec. 6th, was 69, in 1939. The Record Low was -12 in 2005. Sunrise today: 7:31-a.m.; Sunset is at 4:50-p.m.

(Radio Iowa) – Another weekend, another snowstorm. Iowans are bracing for moderate to heavy snowfall for the second consecutive Saturday. Last weekend’s pre-winter blast dumped more than 16 inches of snow on parts of Iowa, and in the midst of it, five state snowplows were rear-ended by motorists. Iowa D-O-T winter operations administrator Craig Bargfrede is pleading with drivers to be vigilant and go slow — or don’t go out. “People need to make sure that you’re back into the mindset of winter driving,” Bargfrede says. “Give us room, operate your vehicle very cautiously when operating around a snow plow. Remember, we travel at much slower speeds. We can make abrupt movements.”

Pictured: Still frame image from an IA DOT snowplow video showing the plow being hit from behind during a recent Dec. 2025 snowstorm

Lack of good visibility is often one of the serious challenges of wintertime driving, and he urges extreme caution as you approach a plow from behind. “Depending upon the type of snow,” he says, “we can kick up a cloud around us that at times can actually blind you from seeing that truck.” While no serious injuries were reported in last weekend’s plow-involved accidents, he says there’s no excuse for even one such collision.  “Please, please, please, we just can’t say enough about safety and operating your vehicle around a snow plow,” Bargfrede says. “Give us room. Be patient with us. Those men and women that are operating those plows, they’re a husband, they’re a wife, they’re a father, they’re a brother, and they’re just trying to do the best job available and get home to their family safely at the end of the day.”

Forecasters say the approaching system may drop three to seven inches of snow across much of the state starting Saturday afternoon, potentially impacting travel. Check road conditions at the D-O-T’s 5-1-1-ia-dot-org.

Today: Mostly sunny, with a high near 34. S/SW winds @ 5-10 this morning, becoming Westerly this afternoon. Wind chill values as low as 5.
Tonight: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 16.
Saturday: A 50% chance of afternoon snow, otherwise mostly cloudy, with a high near 31. E/SE winds 5-15 mph w/gusts to near 25. New snow accumulation of 1 to 2 inches possible.
Sat. Night: Snow likely, mainly before midnight. A low around 11. SE-N winds 10-20 mph.  New snow of 1-2″ possible.
Sunday: Partly sunny, with a high near 17.
Monday: Partly sunny, with a high near 29..
Tuesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 39.

Thursday’s High in Atlantic was 24. The Low was -10. Last year on this date (12/5), the High in Atlantic was 23 & the Low was 7. The Record High in Atlantic on Dec. 5th, was 66, in 2001. The Record Low was -14 in 2005. Sunrise today: 7:30-a.m.; Sunset is at 4:50-p.m.

Today: Sunny, with a high near 15. S/SE winds @ 10-20 mph becoming S @ 5-10. Wind chill values as low as -10.
Tonight: Mostly clear, with the temperature rising to around 17 by midnight. S/SW winds 10-20 mph. Wind chill values as low as zero.
Friday: Partly sunny, with a high near 33. Wind chill values as low as 5. South southwest wind 7 to 9 mph.
Friday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 18.
Saturday: Mostly cloudy w/a 40% chance of snow after noon. A high near 29.
Saturday Night: A 50% chance of snow, mainly before midnight. A low around 5.
Sunday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 15.
Sunday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 1.
Monday: Partly sunny, with a high near 28.

Wednesday’s High in Atlantic was 34. Our Low this morning (as of 5-a.m.) was -7.  Last year on this date (12/4), the High in Atlantic was 47 & the Low was 7. The Record High in Atlantic on Dec. 4th, was 66, in 1998. The Record Low was -8 in 1905. Sunrise today: 7:29-a.m.; Sunset is at 4:50-p.m.

Today: Cloudy this morning w/a slight chance of snow or flurries. Gradually becoming mostly sunny. The temperature will fall into the lower teens by 5pm. Winds North @ 5-15 mph this morning will gust up to 25 mph this  afternoon. Wind chill values will be as low as zero.
Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low around -12. N/NW winds 5 to 10 mph.
Tomorrow: Sunny, with a high near 15. Winds becoming southerly @ 10-20 mph. Wind chill values as low as -10.
Friday: Partly sunny, with a high near 31.
Saturday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 30.
Sunday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 24.

Tuesday’s High in Atlantic was 31. Our Low was 6. Last year on this date (12/3), the High in Atlantic was 36 & the Low was 15. The Record High in Atlantic on Dec. 3rd, was 64, in 2017. The Record Low was -13 in 1919. Sunrise today: 7:28-a.m.; Sunset is at 4:50-p.m.

Today: Partly sunny, with a high near 30. Winds S @ 5-10 this morning, gusts to near 20 this afternoon. Wind chill values as low as -5.

Tonight: Mostly cloudy w/a chance of flurries after midnight. Low around 24.

Tomorrow: Cloudy w/a 20% chance of snow before noon; Gradually becoming mostly sunny with temperatures falling to around 12 degrees by 5-p.m. Winds N @ 10-25 mph.  Wind chill values as low as zero.

Tom. Night: Mostly clear, with a low around -12. Winds N/NE @ 10-20.

Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 16.

Friday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 29.

Saturday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 30.

Monday’s High in Atlantic was 23. Our Low this morning was 6. We received a brief burst of snow in Atlantic Monday morning, which left .2″ of snowfall (a liquid value of .01″). Last year on this date, the High in Atlantic was 26 & the Low was 10. The Record High on Dec. 2nd in Atlantic, was 65 in 2021. The Record Low was -10 in 1985. Sunrise today: 7:27. Sunset: 4:50.

(Radio Iowa) – State Climatologist Justin Glisan says the heavy snow we got this weekend bumped up what had been a dry November. “If we take the rain we had and then combine that with the liquid equivalent of the snowfall that we had at the end of the month, preliminarily we’re coming out at at about one-point-six (1.6) inches of moisture and that’s about a quarter inch below average,” he says. Glisan says the preliminary average snowfall is eight inches for November, which puts the month into record territory.

“If that holds, around that eight inch mark, it’s about five-and-a-half inches above average, which would put us in the top ten snowiest Novembers in 138 years of records,” Glisan says, “which is kind of astounding, giving that it was basically snowfall over 36 hours. So it was a very potent system that came through.” The average November temperature is 37 degrees, and early on it looked like we’d be well above that.

“Mid-month we had temperatures in the 60s and 70s and then we kind of nosed nose dove towards the end of the month. Overall though, we were about three degrees above average for November,” he says. Glisan says there’s good and bad to having a snowpack. One of the good things is a shallow frost depth. “And a more shallow frost depth gives us a higher potential as we melt in late winter and early spring of infiltrating that melted snow pack into the profile versus it running off,” he says.

He says getting more runoff into the ground will help those areas that have been dryer than normal. There’s also a negative to having snow on the ground. “Of course having a snowpack on the ground also produces colder temperatures, so you know, depending on what you like, I think we have a variety out there for everybody,” he says. The forecast is calling for varying amounts of snow and colder temperatures this week to keep that snowpack in place.

(Atlantic, Iowa) –   Weather data for Atlantic during the month of November, 2025 (Compiled here at KJAN – the official National Weather Service reporting site), shows we were about 5-degrees warmer than normal for a high, and almost 2-degrees cooler for the Low. The average High last month was 51, compared to the norm of 46. The average Low was 26, compared to the norm of 27. The warmest day last month was 74 on Nov. 15th. Our coolest morning was 12 degrees on the 28th.

Snowfall amounted to 5.9-inches altogether, which brought us a liquid value (when combined with rain), of 1.3-inches. Normally, the combined snow/rain value would have been 1.85-inches.

Looking ahead, we find the average High temperature for the month of December in Atlantic, according to historical records, is typically around 33 degrees, while the average Low is 14. Precipitation on average, amounts to just about 1.11-inches.

Check back with us during the first week of January, 2026, to see how our actual weather data compared to the historical averages for December.