Today: Mostly sunny, with a high near 82. E/SE wind becoming S/SE at 5 to 10 mph this morning.
Tonight: A 10% chance of showers & thunderstorms after midnight; Partly cloudy. Low around 64.
Tomorrow: A 30% chance of showers & thunderstorms, mainly before 10am. Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 86. Winds South @ 10-20 mph.
Tom. Night: A 20% chance of showers & thunderstorms after midnight; Mostly clear, with a low around 69.
Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 88.
Friday: Sunny, with a high near 91. Breezy.

Monday’s High in Atlantic was 79. Our Low this morning was 57. Last year on this date, the High in Atlantic was 94 and the Low was 63. The All-time Record High in Atlantic on Aug. 5th, was 111 in 1918. The Record Low was 42 in 1978. Sunrise is at 6:18; Sunset will be at 8:33.

Today: Partly sunny, with a high near 78. Calm wind becoming southeast 5 to 10 mph this morning.
Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 58. East southeast wind around 5 mph.
Tomorrow: Mostly sunny, with a high near 82. Light southeast wind increasing to 5 to 10 mph in the morning.
Tom. Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 64. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph.
Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 86.
Wed. Night: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1am. Mostly clear, with a low around 69.
Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 90.

Sunday’s High in Atlantic was 73. Our Low this morning was 56. Last year on this date, the High in Atlantic was 94 and the Low was 65. The All-time Record High in Atlantic on Aug. 4th, was 110 in 1918. The Record Low was 38 in 1978. Sunrise is at 6:17; Sunset will be at 8:35.

Today: Partly sunny, with a high near 77. S/SE winds 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 57.
Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 78. Wind becoming S/SE at around 5 mph in the morning.
Monday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 59.
Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 83.
Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 64.
Wednesday: A slight chance of showers & thunderstorms, otherwise mostly sunny, with a high near 85.

Saturday’s High in Atlantic was 77. The Low was 53. Last year on this date, the High in Atlantic was 93 and the Low was 64. The Record High in Atlantic on August 3rd was 107 in 1930. The Record Low was 42 in 1907. Sunrise today: 6:15; Sunset tonight: 8:35.

Today: **AIR QUALITY ALERT THRU 8-A.M. SUNDAY**Areas of smoke before 8 am, then areas of smoke after 9 am. Partly sunny, high near 77. Calm wind becoming S/SE 5-9 mph in the morning.
Tonight: Areas of smoke. Partly cloudy, with a low around 57. SE winds 5-7 mph.
Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 76. Southeast wind 5-9 mph.
Sunday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 57. S/SE wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Monday: Partly sunny. A high near 78. Calm wind becoming S/SE 5-7 mph in the morning
Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 60.
Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 83.

Friday’s High in Atlantic was 75. Our Low this morning was 52. Last year on this date, the High in Atlantic was 90 and the Low was 63. The Record High in Atlantic on August 2nd was 103 in 1930. The Record Low was 42 in 1907.

(Radio Iowa) – State Climatologist Justin Glisan says the drought-busting rains of July pushed the month to near the very top of the state record book

He says it will be a July many people will remember for the big storms.

He says we were another big rain event away from the July record.

Glisan says the early dry months of the year kept 2025 from being another flood year like 1993.

July was the second wettest on record behind 1993. (RI photo)

Glisan says there were two main sources of moisture that led to ample July rain.

Glisan says he gets asked a lot about the so-called “corn sweat” where moisture comes off the 13 million acres of corn in Iowa. He says it is another source of water that leads to rain.

Glisan says the heat dome that set up around the third week of July led to heat indexes in the triple digits, but not record heat.

Glisan says that heat did spawn storms, including the derecho that barreled across the state.

Today: **AIR QUALITY ALERT for wildfire smoke** Areas of smoke. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 75. NE/E winds 5-10 mph.
Tonight: AIR QUALITY ALERT until midnight. Areas of smoke. Partly cloudy, with a low around 55.
Saturday: Partly sunny, with a high near 75. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph.
Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 55.
Sunday: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms; Partly sunny. A high near 76.
Sunday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 58.
Monday: Partly sunny, with a high near 77.

Thursday’s High in Atlantic was 80. Our Low this morning was 57. Last year on this date, the High in Atlantic was 86 and the Low was 61. The Record High in Atlantic on August 1st was 102 in 1897. The Record Low was 42 in 1898. Sunrise today: 6:14; Sunset tonight: 8:37.

Thursday: Patchy smoke from Arizona and Canadian wildfires drifting into the area this afternoon, otherwise partly sunny. A high near 75. East northeast wind 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight: Patchy smoke. Partly cloudy, with a low around 55. East northeast wind 5 to 10 mph.
Friday: Patchy smoke. Mostly sunny, with a high near 74. Winds E @ 5-10 in the morning.
Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 56.
Saturday: Partly sunny, with a high near 75.
Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 57.
Sunday: A 20% chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 75.
Sunday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 59.

Wednesday’s High in Atlantic was 81. Our Low this morning was 66. Last year on this date, the High in Atlantic was 91 and the Low was 64. The Record High in Atlantic on July 31st was 104 in 1955. The Record Low was 39 in 1971. Sunrise today: 6:14; Sunset tonight: 8:39.

(Radio Iowa) – The experts now say the powerful storm that rolled over Iowa Monday night and into Tuesday was a derecho, an exceptionally long-lasting and damaging wind storm, which some call a land hurricane. Winds in the storm topped off in northwest Iowa at 99 miles an hour, and cleanup in multiple communities statewide may take a week. Meteorologist Alexis Jimenez, at the National Weather Service, says derechos are always designated after the fact.

“That line of storms had moved across much of northern Iowa, and then even sinking into eastern Iowa,” Jimenez says. “So the intensity of seeing 70-plus mile an hour winds for a very long span — at that point, it was hundreds of miles — plus seeing the significant damage that we saw, those all go into factoring if that was a derecho or not.” Iowa was walloped with more powerful storms last (Tuesday) night and into this morning, marking the third straight night of wicked weather. Jimenez says this latest round wasn’t as severe as the previous night, but it did push at least one Iowa city into record territory during what’s usually one of the state’s driest months.

Storm Lake Police photo

“We broke the record for monthly rainfall for July for Des Moines specifically,” Jimenez says. “At least as of 7 o’clock this morning, we’ve had 10.62 inches of rain so far this month, and the previous record was 10.51.” Some areas of the state got three more inches of rainfall overnight, and strong winds again tore through trees, ripping off limbs and knocking out the power to many thousands of homes across Iowa. “We still had some winds that were getting towards severe, 60 miles an hour wind gusts, especially in places like Carroll,” Jimenez says, “and then other sections over by Waterloo, as another line of storms moved through that section of the state.”

Along with three nights in a row of storms, Iowa also had multiple recent days with heat advisories and extreme heat warnings, as heat indices climbed as high as 115 degrees some afternoons. Jimenez says the forecast calls for more pleasant, calm weather ahead with dry conditions and highs the next several days only in the 70s.

Official reports relayed to the National Weather Service