Today: Areas of dense fog before 9am. Otherwise, increasing clouds & breezy, with a high near 74. NW winds 10-25 this afternoon.
Tonight: A 40% chance of showers, mainly before 9pm. Gradual clearing, with a low around 41. NW winds 15-35 mph.
Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 61. West northwest wind 10 to 20 mph.
Sunday Night: Clear, with a low around 45. South wind 5 to 15 mph, with gusts to near 25 mph.
Monday: Mostly sunny & breezy, with a high near 66. S winds becoming W @ 15-25 mph.
Monday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 42.
Tuesday: Sunny & breezy, with a high near 58.
Tuesday Night: Clear, with a low around 34.
Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 65.

Friday’s High in Atlantic was 74. The Low was 43. We received .25″ rain. Last year on this date (Oct. 18th), the High in Atlantic was 75 & the Low was 49. The Record High for Oct. 18th in Atlantic, was 86 in 2003. The Record Low was 13 in 2022. Sunrise: 7:35; Sunset: 6:35.

Today: Mostly sunny & breezy, with a high near 80. Winds South @ 10-20 mph w/gusts to near 30.
Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 61. Winds South @ 10-to near 25 mph.
Tomorrow: Partly sunny w/a 60% chance of showers and/or thunderstorms. A high near 75. Winds SW @ 10-25 mph.
Tom. Night: A slight chance of showers through midnight, otherwise mostly clear, with a low around 50.
Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 73.
Sat. Night: P/Cldy w/a slight chance of showers. A low around 40.
Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 64.
Monday: Sunny & breezy, with a high near 71.

Wednesday’s High in Atlantic was 79. The Low was 58. We received .08″ rain. Last year on this date (Oct. 16th), the High in Atlantic was 61 & the Low was 20. The Record High for Oct. 16th in Atlantic, was 87 in 1921. The Record Low was 20 in 1976, 1977 & 2024. Sunrise: 7:33; Sunset:6:38.

Official National Weather Service Cooperative Observer reports:

Atlantic (KJAN), .02″

Atlantic (7.1 miles N/NE), .02″

Elk Horn, .12″

New Market: Trace of rain

Schleswig, .33″

Today: Mostly cloudy with a 30% chance of showers & thunderstorms. A high near 78. S/SE winds 5-10 mph.
Tonight: Partly cloudy w/a 20% chance of showers, and a low around 61.
Tomorrow: Mostly sunny & breezy, with a high near 80. Winds S @ 10-25 mph.
Tom. Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 60. South winds 10-20 mph.
Friday: Mo. Cldy w/a 70% chance of showers & possibly a thunderstorm. A high near 73.
Friday Night: A 40% chance of showers and thunderstorms. A low around 49.
Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 68.
Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 38.

Tuesday’s High in Atlantic was 61. The Low was 52. We had received .01″ rain from 7-a.m. Tuesday up until 5-a.m. today. Last year on this date (Oct. 15th), the High in Atlantic was 58 & the Low was 21. The Record High for Oct. 15th in Atlantic, was 89 in 1892. The Record Low was 17 in 1952. Sunrise: 7:31; Sunset:6:39.

Official National Weather Service Cooperative Observer reports:

Atlantic (KJAN): .01″

Atlantic (7.1 miles N/NE): .02″

Creston: Trace

Cromwell: Trace

Earling: .09″

Elk Horn (.2 mile S/SE): .01″

Missouri Valley: .09″

Today: Cloudy w/a 40% chance of showers. A high near 63. East-northeast wind around 10 mph.
Tonight: A slight chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after midnight. A low around 56.
Tomorrow: Partly sunny w/a 30% chance of showers & thunderstorms. A high near 79. S/SE winds 5-10 mph.
Tom. Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 59.
Thursday: Mostly sunny& breezy, with a high near 80.
Thursday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 59.
Friday: P/Sunny w/a 40% chance of showers. A high near 76.
Friday Night: A 30% chance of showers, otherwise mostly clear, with a low around 48.

Monday’s High in Atlantic was 70. The Low was 52. Light rain was falling this morning. As of just before 6-a.m., we had received a little more than a Trace of rain (<.01″). Last year on this date (Oct. 14th), the High in Atlantic was 60 & the Low was 30. The Record High for Oct. 14th in Atlantic, was 88 in 1897. The Record Low was 16 in 1937. Sunrise: 7:30; Sunset:6:41.

(Radio Iowa) – The National Weather Service says there’s a high risk of cropland fires in over 50 Iowa counties this (Monday) afternoon through sunrise tomorrow (Tuesday). A combine was destroyed and 12 acres of corn stalks burned in northwest Iowa yesterday (Sunday) before fire crews from Cherokee and Larrabee were able to stop a field fire. Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig says recent weather conditions have been difficult.

“Ninety degree temperatures, low humidities and 25, 30, 35 mile an hour wind gusts,” Naig said. “That’s a recipe for a field fire.” Safety experts recommend that farmers do frequent weather checks while harvesting and periodically use an air compressor or leaf blower when the machine is off and cooled down to remove dirt, dust, chaff and other accumulate plant residue. Naig says having a fire plan is important, too, because acting quickly is key when a spark ignites a field fire.

“What piece of equipment is already hooked on or what would you hook on? Who would you call?…Being aware of that machine and what smells hot, what looks wrong, where might you throw a spark? Those are just the types of things that you’ve got to be very, very mindful of,” Naig says.

Temperatures have been cooler today (Monday), though, and there’s a chance for sprinkles in parts of the state overnight, with a better chance for rain on Wednesday.

(Radio Iowa) – Thirty-seven tornadoes have been reported in Iowa so far this year after over 130 were confirmed in Iowa last year. Tornadoes can strike in any month, but the majority of tornadoes tend to strike Iowa from April through the end of July. State Climatologist Justin Glisan says one factor this year was it wasn’t particularly windy this summer.”We’ve been thankfully on a low point in severe weather, but we’ve gotten rainfall and I’ll take this as opposed to the severe weather season last year,” Glisan said.

A derecho formed in South Dakota on July 28th, then swept across northern and eastern Iowa. “If you go back to 2020, the August 10th derecho, we’ve had six since then,” Glisan says. “You’d have to go back to 2013 for another derecho.” Glisan made his comments during a recent appearance on “Iowa Press” on Iowa P-B-S.

2025 tornado image Via the NWS; Photo credit: @adamorgler

One of the largest tornado outbreaks in Iowa occurred on August 31st, 2014. A year later, experts evaluating satellite pictures from that date were able to confirm 35 tornadoes had touched down and caused damage in farm fields.

(Radio Iowa) – Iowa has ended a nine-week run where the U-S Drought map showed no color for dryness of any kind. The D-N-R’s Jessica Reese McIntyre says the northwest, southern and eastern areas of the state are back to abnormally dry, with a slice of moderate drought.  “It did have a small area, the equivalent of about one percent of the state, but still significant, along the Mississippi River in eastern Iowa,” she says. McIntyre says the rainfall slowed after what was the second wettest July on record. “It just progressively got worse through September because both August and September were drier than normal after having that really wet July,” she says.

McIntyre says there’s not a clear signal right now if the dry conditions will continue. “We don’t have the potential to see above normal precipitation for the next three months according to the National Weather Service forecast seasonal forecast,” she says. There’s just no real indication if we’ll go one way or the other and just kind of stay above average. So we will have to just kind of wait and see how that all pans out, how that forecast pans out, but it doesn’t look favorable to get above normal.” She says October could be warmer than normal, which could indicate we’ll stay dry. “One thing to kind of remember is that warm air tends to hold moisture, so it kind of kind of grabs it, right? So it can make these conditions worse, these dry conditions worse with warmer temperatures,” she says.

She says the drier conditions have helped farmers move quickly with the harvest, but also caused problems with dust and the potential for field fires.

Today (Columbus Day): Mostly sunny, with a high near 68. North wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts to near 25 mph.
Tonight: Partly cloudy to cloudy w/a 30% chance of showers, mainly after midnight. A low around 51.
Tomorrow: Cloudy w/a 50% chance of showers. A high near 63. East wind around 10 mph.
Tom. Night: Mostly cloudy w/a 30% chance of showers & isolated thunderstorms. A low around 55.
Wednesday: Mo. Cloudy w/a 30% chance of showers through early afternoon. A high near 75.
Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy w/a slight chance of showers late. A low around 59.
Thursday: Mostly sunny & breezy, with a high near 80.

Sunday’s High in Atlantic was 82. Our Low this morning was 53. Last year on this date (Oct. 13th), the High in Atlantic was 61 & the Low was 31. The Record High for Oct. 13th in Atlantic, was 88 in 1975. The Record Low was 15 in 1907. Sunrise: 7:29; Sunset:6:42.