Today: Partly cloudy. High 93. SE @ 10-15.
Tonight: P/Cldy to Cldy w/scattered shwrs & tstrms, especially toward morning. Low 70. SE @ 5-10.
Tomorrow: Showers & thunderstorms, mainly in the morning. High 80. NW @ 10-15.
Sunday: P/Cldy. High 82.
Monday: P/Cldy. High 84.
Yesterday’s High in Atlantic was 93. Our Low this morning was 60. Last year on this date our High was 83 and the Low was 52. The record High in Atlantic on this date was 99 in 1934. The Record Low was 36, in 1956.
Today: Partly cloudy. High around 90. W @ 10-15.
Tonight: Fair to P/Cldy. Low 62.
Tomorrow: P/Cldy. High 92. SE @ 10-15.
Saturday: Mostly cloudy w/scattered showers & thunderstorms. High 82.
Sunday: P/Cldy. High 84.
Yesterday’s High in Atlantic was 83. Our Low this morning was 65. Last year on this date our High was 78 and the Low was 46. The record High in Atlantic on this date was 101 in 1934. The Record Low was 31, in 1897.
Today: Partly cloudy to cloudy with scattered morning and afternoon showers & thunderstorms. High 88. SE-W @ 10-15.
Tonight: Showers ending. Becoming P/Cldy. Low 60.
Tomorrow: P/Cldy. High near 90. W @ 10-15.
Friday: P/Cldy. High 92.
Saturday: Variably cloudy w/scatt. showers. High 83.
Yesterday’s High in Atlantic was 92. We received .6” of rain. Our Low this morning was 65. Last year on this date our High was 78 and the Low was 43. The record High in Atlantic on this date was 105 in 1934. The Record Low was 33, in 1930.
Cass County (4:52-p.m. report) – Barn blown down at 68475 Independence Road, about 1 mile south of Wiota (Beth McDermott farm). No injuries reported. (Timing approximate)
Severe weather and straight line winds in the Shelby area caused a large power outage in the area, Tuesday evening. 5 Nishnabotna REC power poles near Shelby were snapped off causing the outage.
Crawford County: 3:50-p.m. Nickel size hail 5 miles w/sw of Dow City.
Dallas County: 6:24-p.m. – 2 foot diameter tree fell on I Avenue, 4 miles N. of Earlham
Montgomery County: approximately 6:25-p.m. Emergency Management reported torrential rain had caused street flooding in parts of Red Oak, near the YMCA.; Nickel sized hail near Henderson at around 5:40-p.m., and 2.15″ of rain fell.
Pottawattamie County: Several small tree limbs reported down near McClelland at around 4:20-p.m.; Emergency Management reported 5th wheel trailer overturned near Shelby. 30″ diameter trees blown over and power poles snapped. (4:28-p.m.); Winds of up to 60mph and dime size hail were reported w/sw of Neola at around 3:55-p.m.
Nickel size hail fell near Panama at around 3:24-p.m.; 64 mph winds recorded south of Harlan at 3:35-p.m.
Tree fell on power line near Sidney in Fremont County (4:30-p.m.)
Power lines were down near Stanton in Montgomery County (4:50-p.m.)
The experts say our region’s weather patterns will likely be changing for the warmer and wetter in the seasons ahead, but how much they’ll change is still anybody’s guess. Meteorologist Dennis Todey, director of the U-S-D-A’s Midwest Climate Hub — based in Ames, explains: “La Nina is no longer, it’s officially done, so now we are in between phases, which we jokingly call La Nada,” Todey says. “We’ll start watching for how quickly we’ll transition if there are any influences that look El Nino-like as we look towards the fall and winter.”
La Nina patterns often bring cooler temperatures along with more storms in some areas and droughts elsewhere. El Nino patterns typically do the opposite. Todey says the region’s outlook for the month ahead will likely include more rain than normal. “June has wetter chances to the east with decreasing coverage in the summer and we’ll have to keep our eye on that,” Todey says. “Because there’s no specific drying or showing in the outlooks, we’ll need to monitor for changes because convective season precipitation is a very difficult thing to assess.”
A few months ago, there was a lot of grumbling about the long cold winter that stretched well into spring. Todey says there may soon be a complete reversal, with prolonged higher temperatures in the long-range forecast. “Warmer likely for the whole region in June but the edges of the area we deal with have a better chance of being warmer throughout the whole summer,” he says.
Todey says the development of an El Nino pattern later this year could have an impact on the weather from next winter into next spring.
(Radio Iowa)
Today: Variably cloudy skies w/isolated thunderstorms early this morning & later this afternoon. High 92. SE winds @ 10-20mph.
Tonight: Partly-to Mostly cloudy w/scattered shwrs & tstrms. Low 64. SE @ 5-10.
Tomorrow: P/Cldy to Cldy w/scatt. shwrs & tstrms. High 86. W @ 10-20.
Thursday: P/Cldy. High near 90.
Friday: P/Cldy. High around 92.
Yesterday’s High in Atlantic was 97, which broke the old record of 95 set in 1895. Our Low this morning was 66. Last year on this date our High was 75 and the Low was 47. The record High in Atlantic on this date was 104 in 1934. The Record Low was 29, in 1947.
For the third day in a row, Atlantic set a record for a High Temperature. The old record for today (Monday), was 95 in 1895. Today’s High in Atlantic was 97. We also set records Saturday and Sunday, by hitting 100-degrees both days. The old record was 96 in 1926 for Saturday, and 95 in 1895, for Sunday. KJAN is the OFFICIAL National Weather Service reporting and record-keeping site for Atlantic.
It’s been a record-shattering weekend, weather-wise, in much of Iowa. “How quickly we went from a rather wintry April to a very summer-like May.” That’s Cory Martin of the National Weather Service office in Johnston. Heat advisories were issued for central and northwest Iowa on Sunday. “It’s just a strong ridge of high pressure that’s right now pretty much parked over the central tier of the country and that’s brought some unseasonably hot conditions,” Martin said, “a pretty early season heat wave.”
Several locations reported record highs on Sunday, including here in Atlantic, where our High of 100 beat the record of 91 set back in 1931. It was the second day in a row for a record setting temperature in Atlantic. Saturday’s High of 100 broke the record of 96 set in 1926. Carroll and Spencer reached the 100 degree mark, Sunday. The temperature reached 97 in Davenport, Ottumwa and Waterloo. It was 98 in Mason City. Fort Dodge and Des Moines reached 99 degrees. Sioux City was the hottest spot — topping out at 101 degrees. “Definitely an unusual heat event to see this early in the season,” Martin says.
It may be a degree or two cooler today (Monday), but the temperatures are likely to still reach into record high territory, according to Martin. “Through the middle of the week, looks like temperatures are going to fall back a little bit. We’re looking at highs Wednesday maybe in the mid-to-upper 80s,” Martin says. “That’s still a few degrees above normal for this time of year, but as we get back into Thursday and Friday, it looks like we’re going to warm right back up into the 90s and then we’ll be watching another system coming our way this weekend which may bring us some relief, but that’s still a little ways out, so it’s kind of tough to tell what to expect out of that at the moment.”
Temperatures in Iowa are usually in the mid-to-upper 70s this time of year. With all the heat AND humidity in Iowa right now, Martin says there’s plenty of instability in the atmosphere right now to fuel some thunderstorms. “The issue, if you’re looking at tornadoes right now, is the jet stream is pushed well north of the area,” Martin says. “We don’t have any stronger winds aloft that would typically help us with storm organization, to really get some significant severe weather going.”
Some of the record high temperatures for this date in Iowa were set more than a century ago, in 1895.
(Radio Iowa)
Today (Memorial Day): Partly cloudy. High 98. SE @ 10-20mph.
Tonight: P/Cldy. Low 68. SE @ 5-10.
Tomorrow: P/Cldy w/scattered showers & thunderstorms. High 93. SE @ 10-20.
Wednesday: P/Cldy w/scatt. Shwrs & tstrms. High 86.
Thursday: P/Cldy. High 88.
Yesterday’s High in Atlantic was 100, which broke the old record of 91 set in 1931. Our Low this morning was 64. Last year on this date our High was 81 and the Low was 49. The record High in Atlantic on this date was 95 in 1895. The Record Low was 29, in 1984.
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