340 AM CST THU DEC 6 2012

TODAY...MOSTLY CLOUDY. ISOLATED LIGHT SHOWERS IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGH IN THE LOWER 50S. SOUTHWEST WIND 5 TO 15 MPH SHIFTING TO THE NORTHWEST 5 TO 10 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON. CHANCE OF SHOWERS 20 PERCENT.

TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF LIGHT RAIN THROUGH MIDNIGHT. COLDER. LOW IN THE LOWER 30S. NORTHEAST WIND NEAR 5 MPH.

FRIDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. HIGH IN THE MID 40S. EAST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.

FRIDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY THROUGH MIDNIGHT THEN BECOMING PARTLY CLOUDY. LOW IN THE MID 20S. NORTHEAST WIND NEAR 5 MPH.

SATURDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF LIGHT RAIN IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGH IN THE LOWER 40S. SOUTHEAST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.

SATURDAY NIGHT…CLOUDY WITH A 50 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN AND SNOW. LOW IN THE UPPER 20S.

SUNDAY…CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW. COLDER. HIGH IN THE LOWER 30S.

SUNDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. BREEZY…COLDER. LOW 10 TO 15.

October broke a string of drier than normal months, but State Climatologist Harry Hillaker says the wet trend didn’t last long as November turned dry again. “Statewide average precipitation was just a little bit over an inch — one-point-seven inches to be exact,” Hillaker says. “And that’s basically just a little bit better than half of what’s normal for the month of November. And definitely not what we want to be seeing given the dry weather we’ve already had here in 20012.”

In Atlantic, we received Six-tenths of an inch of precipitation in November, which was .83” below normal. Hillaker says only a few areas of the state saw better than average precipitation. “Kind of along a line from south-central up into northeast Iowa,” Hillaker says. But he says the northwest half of the state was especially dry, with some areas seeing only about three-tenths of an inch of rain.

The air was drier and warmer in November. “The month is going to end up being about two-and-a-half degrees warmer than normal, and we’re actually split fairly evenly as far as cooler and warmer than usual days. But the half that were warmer, some of them were way warmer than normal, and so the month as a whole is going to be a little big on the warm side for November, but nothing unusual as far as weather rankings go,” according to Hillaker.

The average high for the month in Atlantic was 53-degrees, which was 5-degrees warmer than normal. The average low was 27, which was 1-degree warmer than normal. The warmest day was Nov. 10^th, when Atlantic reached 75-degrees. The coolest high for the month was 30-degrees on the 20^th. That same date saw the coldest low, at 6-degrees above zero. The warmest temperature for the month in Iowa was 79 degrees on November 10 at Little Sioux in Harrison County, while Stanley in Buchanan County hit five degrees for the low on November 27th.

(Radio Iowa & KJAN News Director Ric Hanson compiled the weather data)

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358 AM CST WED DEC 5 2012

TODAY…PARTLY SUNNY. BREEZY. HIGH IN THE MID 50S. SOUTHEAST WIND 10 TO 20 MPH.

TONIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. NOT AS COOL. LOW IN THE LOWER 40S. SOUTH WIND 10 TO 15 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 25 MPH.

THURSDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF LIGHT RAIN IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGH IN THE LOWER 50S. SOUTH WIND NEAR 10 MPH.

THURSDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF LIGHT RAIN THROUGH MIDNIGHT. LOW IN THE MID 30S. NORTHEAST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.

FRIDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGH IN THE LOWER 40S. NORTH WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.

FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOW IN THE UPPER 20S. HIGH AROUND 40.

SATURDAY NIGHT…CLOUDY WITH A 50 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN. LOW IN THE LOWER 30S.

SUNDAY…CLOUDY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW. HIGH IN THE MID 30S.

The National Weather Service says Iowa experienced unseasonably warm temperatures on Monday, as southwesterly winds increased ahead of an approaching cold front. Many locations broke their daily high temperatures, and several tied their records for the highest temperature ever recorded on that date, in December. Among the locations where the high was tied, was in Atlantic, where we hit 63-degrees at 11-a.m., here at the KJAN studios, the Official NWS reporting site for Atlantic. Our high tied the record first set 50-years ago (1962). Today’s predicted high of 58 would fall about 8-degrees shy of tying the record for December 4^th.

High temperatures Monday ranged from 62-degrees in Omaha to 72 in Burlington. Des Moines topped out at 69-degrees, which tied the record set in 1984. The highest temperature ever recorded anywhere in Iowa during the month of December is 74-degrees in Thurman, on Dec. 6^th, 1939, a day on which many areas of western Iowa established December warmth records that still stand today. On that date, Atlantic hit 69 degrees.

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TODAY...MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGH IN THE UPPER 50S. WEST WIND NEAR 10 MPH.

TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOW IN THE UPPER 20S. NORTHWEST WIND NEAR 5 MPH SHIFTING TO THE EAST AFTER MIDNIGHT.

WEDNESDAY...PARTLY SUNNY. BREEZY. HIGH IN THE MID 50S. SOUTHEAST WIND 5 TO 15 MPH SHIFTING TO THE SOUTH 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 30 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. BREEZY. NOT AS COOL. LOW AROUND 40. SOUTH WIND 15 TO 20 MPH.

THURSDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF LIGHT RAIN IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGH IN THE LOWER 50S. SOUTH WIND 5 TO 15 MPH.

THURSDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF LIGHT RAIN THROUGH MIDNIGHT. COLDER. LOW AROUND 30.

FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. HIGH IN THE MID 40S. LOW IN THE LOWER 30S.

Expect to see several records being broken today for the warmest temperature on this date. In Atlantic, as of 11-a.m., the temperature at the KJAN studios (The official National Weather Service reporting site for Atlantic) was 63-degrees, which tied the record set 50-years ago on this date. The predicted high this afternoon, is forecast to be around 63.

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355 AM CST MON DEC 3 2012

...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM CST EARLY THIS MORNING…

EARLY THIS MORNING…CLOUDY. AREAS OF DENSE FOG. SOUTH WIND 10 TO 15 MPH.

TODAY…PARTLY SUNNY. BREEZY. PATCHY FOG THROUGH MID MORNING. HIGH IN THE LOWER 60S. SOUTHWEST WIND AROUND 15 MPH SHIFTING TO THE NORTHWEST IN THE AFTERNOON. GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH.

TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. COLDER. LOW IN THE LOWER 30S. NORTHWEST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.

TUESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGH IN THE UPPER 50S. WEST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.

TUESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOW IN THE UPPER 20S. NORTHWEST WIND NEAR 5 MPH SHIFTING TO THE EAST AFTER MIDNIGHT.

WEDNESDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGH IN THE LOWER 50S. SOUTHEAST WIND 5 TO 15 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 25 MPH.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. NOT AS COOL. LOW IN THE LOWER 40S.

THURSDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN. HIGH IN THE LOWER 50S.