Good Tuesday Morning! Below is your latest forecast update:
Current “feels like” temps:
We are looking at our next system to work into the area late tonight. Sim radar from 11 PM CT tonight through luncthime tomorrow. The video has the latest details on timing and the thought of some potential drizzle with the onset of this event:
Sim radar from Wed afternoon through Thursday evening:
Sim radar from Friday Morning through Saturday evening:
Note how across the state we are hovering temps throughout much of the event right around the freezing mark. While snow can accumulate on cars, roofs, grassy surfaces…etc, it is hard to accumulate snow on pavement if it’s treated and temps are 33-35 degrees:
Favored liquid precipitation totals from this event. Please watch the video for the latest thoughts on snowfall:
Wind panel over the next 4 days:
Temperature charts over the next 10 days. Different charts being used than normal to show that while most model data is showing precip from Wed-Thu, temps across the area are near that 31-33 degree mark and temps being a degree or two different here and there will have a major impact on the precip type and the accumulation of any wintry weather. Temps are the top bar of the image with precip type and precip rate in the middle and lower portions of the images, respectively:
Ankeny:
