344 AM CDT SUN JUL 21 2013 – via the Nat’l. Weather Svc./Des Moines

EARLY THIS MORNING…PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. SOUTHEAST WIND NEAR 5 MPH.

TODAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 50 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. HIGH IN THE MID 80S. SOUTH WIND NEAR 10 MPH.

TONIGHT...PARTLY CLOUDY. LOW IN THE MID 60S. SOUTH WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.

MONDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HOT AND HUMID. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS LATE IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGH IN THE LOWER 90S. SOUTHWEST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH. HIGHEST HEAT INDEX READINGS AROUND 100 IN THE AFTERNOON.

MONDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. A 50 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH MIDNIGHT. LOW IN THE UPPER 60S. SOUTHWEST WIND NEAR 5 MPH SHIFTING TO THE NORTHWEST AFTER MIDNIGHT.

TUESDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGH IN THE MID 80S. NORTH WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.

TUESDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. LOW IN THE LOWER 60S.

WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGH IN THE LOWER 80S. LOW IN THE MID 60S.

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430 AM CDT SAT JUL 20 2013

EARLY THIS MORNING…PARTLY CLOUDY. COOLER. NORTHEAST WIND NEAR 5 MPH.

TODAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGH IN THE UPPER 80S. EAST WIND NEAR 10 MPH.

TONIGHT...PARTLY CLOUDY IN THE EVENING…THEN A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS BEFORE MIDNIGHT AND EARLY MORNING. MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY EARLY IN THE MORNING. LOW IN THE UPPER 60S. SOUTHEAST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH. CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS 60 PERCENT.

SUNDAY...MOSTLY CLOUDY. THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY IN THE MORNING…THEN A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGH IN THE MID 80S. SOUTHEAST WIND AROUND 5 MPH. CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS 60 PERCENT.

SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...PARTLY CLOUDY. LOW IN THE UPPER 60S. HIGH IN THE LOWER 90S. SOUTH WIND NEAR 5 MPH. HEAT INDEX READINGS AROUND 100.

MONDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 50 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. LOW IN THE UPPER 60S.

TUESDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGH IN THE MID 80S.

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244 AM CDT FRI JUL 19 2013

EARLY THIS MORNING…MOSTLY CLEAR. SOUTHWEST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.

TODAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HOT AND HUMID. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGH IN THE UPPER 90S. WEST WIND 5 TO 15 MPH. CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS 20 PERCENT. HIGHEST HEAT INDEX READINGS 100 TO 105 IN THE AFTERNOON.

TONIGHT...MOSTLY CLEAR. LOW IN THE UPPER 60S. NORTHEAST WIND NEAR 10 MPH.

SATURDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. NOT AS WARM. HIGH IN THE MID 80S. EAST WIND NEAR 10 MPH.

SATURDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. LOW IN THE MID 60S. SOUTHEAST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.

SUNDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 50 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. HIGH IN THE LOWER 80S. SOUTHEAST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.

SUNDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. LOW IN THE UPPER 60S.

MONDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. HIGH IN THE UPPER 80S.

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EARLY THIS MORNING…MOSTLY CLEAR. SOUTH WIND NEAR 5 MPH.

TODAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HOT. HIGH IN THE MID 90S. SOUTHWEST WIND 5 TO 15 MPH.

TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOW IN THE MID 70S. SOUTHWEST WIND 10 TO 15 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 25 MPH.

FRIDAY…HOT AND HUMID. PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. HIGH IN THE MID 90S. SOUTHWEST WIND 10 TO 15 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 25 MPH SHIFTING TO THE NORTHWEST 5 TO 10 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGHEST HEAT INDEX READINGS AROUND 100 IN THE AFTERNOON.

FRIDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOW IN THE UPPER 60S. NORTHEAST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.

SATURDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGH IN THE MID 80S. EAST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.

SATURDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. LOW IN THE MID 60S.

SUNDAY...MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. HIGH IN THE MID 80S.

SUNDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. LOW IN THE UPPER 60S.

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Today: Sunny, with a high near 91. Light south southwest wind increasing to 6 to 11 mph in the morning.
Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 72. South wind 7 to 9 mph.

Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 92. Breezy, with a south southwest wind 9 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph.
Thursday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 73. Breezy, with a south southwest wind 10 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph.

Friday: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 93. Breezy, with a southwest wind 10 to 17 mph becoming northwest in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 25 mph.
Friday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 67.

Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 85.

You’ve heard of flash flooding. Now, there’s the flash drought. Parts of Iowa are seeing the driest July in decades and Jim Lee, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service, says the term “flash drought” applies, as the heat wave came on very quickly following Iowa’s wettest-ever spring. “A drought can be characterized by a lack of rainfall, low levels of ground water and soil moisture, affects on plants and so forth and sometimes droughts occur over long time scales of several years, sometimes the occur over a period of a few months,” Lee says. “So for the shorter events, sometimes we refer to them as flash droughts.”

Lawns that aren’t being watered are becoming brown and crunchy, especially in parts of central Iowa, where it’s the driest July, so far, since 1976. Des Moines has only gotten six-hundredths of an inch of rain this month. Lee notes, the turnaround from earlier this year is unusual.

“We did have the wettest spring on record in Iowa in terms of the average statewide rainfall from March through May,” Lee says. “We’re not necessarily in a drought yet, in fact, very little of Iowa is in drought conditions right now, however, if we continue to see the dry pattern that we’ve seen established over the last couple of weeks persist through the rest of July, then we could enter that territory.”

Much of the state and a large portion of the region were hit with a drought that lasted the majority of last year, however, the rainy spring gave promise to a change for Iowa. Lee says it’s still not known whether this flash drought will become another full-fledged drought. Lee says, “The fortunate thing about events like this is that because we had that wet spring, we were able to replenish our soil moisture, subsoil moisture, river levels, reservoirs and so forth, so that we’re better able to take a drier second half of summer.”

(Radio Iowa)

The forecast calls for a few scattered showers but no significant rainfall until perhaps the weekend.