Our weather pattern then quiets down for the most part, with the exception of a system passing just to our south Saturday, bringing the potential for some light flurries to southern Iowa.
Gusts could be near 30mph Thursday afternoon before calming back down by Friday morning. For instance, northwestern Polk county could receive about 4-5″ of snow, while southeastern Polk county gets around 2″ or less.Īs the system exits, winds will increase. There will likely be a fairly sharp cutoff from areas that receive a decent amount of snow to areas that receive fairly little. The metro area will likely receive around 2-5″, with totals of 6-8″ to the northwest.
Snow totals will be greatest in northern and western Iowa. Snow totals: Heavy, wet snow covers much of central Iowa Saturday Parts of the state were covered with up to 8 inches worth of wet flakes Updated: 2:05 PM CDT Infinite Scroll.
The most difficult period of travel looks to be overnight into Thursday morning. As the changeover to snow happens and temperatures fall, roads will become slick. Travel impacts will be fairly minimal Wednesday afternoon as temperatures stay above freezing and precipitation remains mixed. By midmorning Thursday, flurries should wrap up from south to north. Snow continues through the overnight, lingering into Thursday morning. Later in the evening hours, precipitation should change over to all snow (around 6-7PM in the metro). You can jump to a separate table for each region of the state: Eastern, Central and Western Iowa. map below)ĬLICK HERE for National Weather Service NOAA updated snow map (seen above from 6:00 a.m.Precipitation will initially start out as some light snow before changing over to a rain and snow mix. The snowfall totals are annual averages based on weather data collected from 1991 to 2020 for the US National Centers for Environmental Information. This is the same storm system that dumped nearly two feet of snow on parts of Central and Western Nebraska through the day Wednesday.ĬLICK HERE for Iowa State University Mesonet updated map (7:20 a.m. In Eastern Iowa Waterloo is on the line for more and less snow-they've got four inches, while Cedar Rapids in reporting an inch. The Des Moines metro area has anywhere from an inch on the city's south side to close to four inches in Polk City In Central Iowa, Redfield sees five-and-a-half inches, four-and-a-half in Winterset, while Ames got four inches. Northern Ames reported 5.2 inches, while western and eastern parts of the. IOWA, USA What a Saturday After some 'bonus snow' Friday morning, the main event arrived later in the afternoon, with heavy snow falling across much of the metro by 3 p.m. As of Thursday morning, the NWS reported snowfall totaled 4.3 inches in Des Moines so far, according to NWS Des Moines. Due to this rain, Past 24 Hour Snowfall Now Total snow accumulation 24in Temperature and. The official storm total from the Des Moines International Airport is 14.3 inches, marking the highest two-day snowfall total since December 2009. The largest amounts fell across in Northern Iowa, with eight inches of snow in Floyd, seven inches in Marble Rock, six-and-a-half inches in Charles City, and six inches in Sergeant Bluff, and Rock Valley. Significant rainfall came down across eastern Iowa last night. The National Weather Service says most of the snow came late Wednesday night and early Thursday morning. DES MOINES, Iowa - Snowfall totals are varying widely as the year's first winter storm moves out of Iowa. 1:07 Des Moines was under a winter weather advisory through Thursday evening, while some parts of southern Iowa are under a winter storm warning, according to the National Weather Service.
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