Today: Sunny & breezy, with a high near 68. Winds SW @ 10-to 25 mph.
Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 42. S/SW winds 15-to 25 mph.
Monday: Sunny, with a high near 71. Southwest wind around 10 mph.
Monday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 45.
Tuesday: A slight chance of rain after 1pm, otherwise mostly sunny, with a high near 66. S winds @ 10-15 becoming northerly & gusting to near 20 mph.
Tue. Night: Rain changing to snow after midnight. A low around 34.
Wednesday: Snow-rain mix ending by 7-a.m.; Becoming Partly sunny & windy, with a high near 46.
Wednesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 25.

Saturday’s High in Atlantic was 49. We received a Trace of rain after 7-a.m. in the form of drizzle/mist. The Low was 30. Last year on this date (March 8th), the High in Atlantic was 51 & the Low was 21. The Record High was 76 in 1986, & the Record Low was -12 in 1982. Sunrise: 7:44; Sunset: 7:18.

From official National Weather Service spotter reports:

(NWS) – Severe storms that blew rapidly through parts of western Iowa and southeastern Nebraska, brought large hail to some locations. The National Weather Service in Valley, NE, said hail ranging in size from a quarter (1″ diameter) to ping pong ball-size hail (1.5″ in diameter) was reported to have fallen one-mile west of Blencoe, in Monona County between 8:40- and 8:45-p.m., Friday. Half-dollar size hail fell near Elliott, in Montgomery County, at around 6:12-p.m., and quarter-size hail fell near Emerson, in Mills County, at around 6:05-p.m.

Pea-to penny-size hail was reported in Dallas and Kossuth Counties in Iowa. Hail the size of quarters to golf ball-size fell in multiple areas in Nebraska, as well.

Through it all, there were no reports of damage or injuries.

Today: Cloudy & breezy through mid morning, then gradual clearing, with a high near 49. Winds NW @ 10-25 mph.
Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 33. S/SW winds 10-25 mph.
Sunday: Sunny & breezy, with a high near 64. SW winds 10-25 mph.
Sunday Night: Clear & breezy, with a low around 42.
Monday: Sunny, with a high near 68.
Tuesday: A slight chance of afternoon showers & thunderstorms after noon, otherwise mostly sunny, with a high near 64.
Wednesday: Partly sunny & breezy, with a high near 51.

Friday’s High in Atlantic was 71. We received .13″ rain at KJAN. The Low was 30. Last year on this date March 7th), the High in Atlantic was 37 & the Low was 19. The Record High was 78 in 2000, & the Record Low was -11 in 1982. Sunrise: 6:45; Sunset: 6:17.

Official NWS Spotter reports:

Other reports (from local media):

Cass County residents located 4 miles West & 7-miles SW of Atlantic, each reported 1.00″

SE of Bridgewater, 1.25″

Marne, 1.10″

Shenandoah, .97″

Clarinda, .80″

North of Neola, .60″

Stanton, 1.70″

Villisca, 1.00″

Lenox, .80″

Today: Showers and thunderstorms likely this morning & again later this afternoon. Some severe storms are possible late today. Large hail, damaging winds & isolated tornadoes are possible. A high near 68. Winds S/SW @ 10 to 25 mph. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight: Showers and thunderstorms. Low around 31. Winds S @ 15-25 mph becoming NW after midnight. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Saturday: Mostly cloudy through mid morning, then gradual clearing. Breezy. A high near 50. NW @ 5-15 mph w/gusts to around 25.
Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 34. SW winds 10-20 mph.
Sunday: Sunny & breezy, with a high near 64.
Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 43.
Monday: Sunny, with a high near 67.

Thursday’s High in Atlantic was 58 (that was a 24-hour high, w/temps rising overnight into early this morning).  We received .73″ rain overnight (thru 7-a.m. today), at KJAN. The Low was 42. Last year on this date (March 6th), the High in Atlantic was 38 & the Low was 13. The Record High was 76 in 2017, & the Record Low was -20 in 1960. Sunrise: 6:47; Sunset: 6:16.

Today: Cloudy through mid morning, then gradual clearing, with a high near 63. S/SE winds 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight: A chance of showers and thunderstorms after 11-p.m. Low around 48. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. A few of the storms could produce large hail.
Friday: Showers and some thunderstorms. High near 70. S/SW winds 15 to 25 mph. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. Large hail and damaging wind gusts will be possible, along with a few tornadoes mainly in southern Iowa.
Friday Night: Rain before 3am, then a slight chance of rain and snow. Some thunder is also possible. Low around 30. Little or no snow accumulation expected.
Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 49.
Saturday Night: Clear, with a low around 33.
Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 64. Breezy.
Monday: Sunny, with a high near 71.

Wednesday’s High in Atlantic was 54. The Low was 39. Last year on this date (March 5th), the High in Atlantic was 26 & the Low was 12. The Record High was 74 in 1921, & the Record Low was -31 in 1960. Sunrise: 6:49; Sunset: 6:15.

(Radio Iowa) – March came in like a lamb, but State Climatologist Justin Glisten says as we move from winter to spring it could bring just about anything. “We can see all types of weather. We can see severe weather, we can see snowfall. We’ve had it all. So as a transition month, who knows, it’s a flip of the coin sometimes,” Glisan says. Glisan says March could help improve some of the dry conditions across the state. “As a state, we typically see slightly under two inches, that’s the 30 year average. And this varies from two-point-three inches in southeast Iowa, all the way up to one-point-six inches in northwest Iowa. So the wetter part of the state is the southern, southeastern (areas),” Glisan says.

Glisan says there is some optimism March could be wetter than normal. “If you look at the short-term outlooks getting into first half of March and even the full March outlook from the Climate Prediction Center, we are showing higher probabilities of warmer and wetter conditions possible,” he says.

April, May and June are generally the wettest months of the year in Iowa.

Today: Cloudy. A high near 51. E/NE winds around 5 mph becoming calm in the afternoon.
Tonight: Mostly cloudy w/a chance of drizzle, mainly between 9pm and 2am. A low around 38.
Tomorrow: Mostly sunny, with a high near 64. S/SE winds 5-10 mph in the afternoon.
Tom. Night: A chance of showers & thunderstorms. Low around 49.  New rainfall amounts between 1/4 & 1/2 inch are possible.
Friday: Showers & possible thunderstorms. Breezy. High near 67. New rainfall amounts between 1/4 & 1/2 inch are once again possible.
Friday Night: Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm. Low around 30.
Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 51.
Saturday Night: Clear, with a low around 33.
Sunday: Sunny & breezy, with a high near 65.

Tuesday’s High in Atlantic was 42 degrees. We received a Trace of rain (<.01). The Low was 36. Last year on this date (March 4th), the High in Atlantic was 56, and the Low was 21. The Record High for this date was 78 in 1921, the record Low was -17 in 1978. Sunrise: 6:50; Sunset: 6:14.

(Radio Iowa) – State climatologist Justin Glisan says February continued what has been a dry winter. “Preliminary liquid equivalent total, so melted snow, melted sleet in the rainfall that we saw, only about four-tenths of an inch, and that’s about eight tenths of an inch below average,” Glisan says. He says it will end up around the 17th driest February in So if you look at 154 years of records. Glisan says February did not have the snow drought we saw in January.

“Overall, about three-point-eight inches of snow on the ground, so three inches below average. So not exceedingly significant snowfall departures, but overall through winter, meteorological winter, December, January, February, as a state, we’re about eight inches below average,” Glisan says. He says the meteorological winter saw much more snow than last year, which ranked 4th for the least amount of snow on the ground. Glisan says the overall snowfall season was a little behind normal. “Starts in October, runs through May, and we’ve even had snow in June. We still have deficits in snowfall, but not as high as what we saw in meteorological winter,” he says. Glisan says the areas that got less snow, like southeastern Iowa and also northwestern Iowa, saw drought conditions increase.

“Coupled with less rainfall and basically no snowpack on the ground, you deplete soil moisture profiles, topsoil particularly, and that’s where you start to see these drier conditions reemerge,” he says. Glisan says temperatures in February were about seven degrees above normal, which provided the benefit of warming of the top level of soil, allowing moisture to sink in. “We did remove shallow frost. So with that shallow frost removal, we did see infiltration of melting snow, but also any rainfall that we got,” he says. “So at least in the shallow profile, we have seen some improvement, particularly you look at a soil moisture map, bullseye right over central Iowa, where we’re right near normal for soil moisture this time of year.”

Glisan says in the southeast and eastern Iowa, there was less overall moisture and the soil profiles remain dry.