The Iowa Weather Podcast

Your morning Iowa weather update Active alerts: Severe Thunderstorm Warning, Severe Thunderstorm Warning, Severe Thunderstorm Watch. around 95 degrees Folks, we've got two serious weather stories unfolding right now, first, severe thunderstorms are hammering northern Iowa as we speak. We're talking damaging winds up to 70 miles an hour and large hail. These storms rolled in around 9 A.M.

Your 3pm Iowa weather update Active alerts: Extreme Heat Warning, Extreme Heat Watch, Extreme Heat Watch. around 69 degrees Good afternoon, Iowa. A heat dome is about to crush Iowa. Tomorrow kicks off a dangerous stretch that could last through the Fourth of July.

Your morning Iowa weather update Active alerts: Extreme Heat Watch, Extreme Heat Watch, Extreme Heat Watch. around 82 degrees This is your last comfortable day before the heat hammer drops. Step outside right now and you're greeted by 65 degrees under a thick blanket of gray. Low clouds are squatting across most of the state this morning, courtesy of stubborn easterly flow off the Great Lakes.

Your 3pm Iowa weather update around 79 degrees Good afternoon, Iowa. You're sitting at a comfortable 77 degrees right now, but this is the last easy day you'll see for a while. A subtropical high is gearing up to the south.

Your morning Iowa weather update around 79 degrees Step outside right now and you'll feel exactly why folks are calling this the calm before the heat. We're sitting at 67 degrees under clear skies — comfortable, quiet, almost deceptively pleasant. Because that's about to flip.

Your 3pm Iowa weather update around 80 degrees Good afternoon, Iowa. A weak cold front is drifting across Iowa today. And it's bringing just enough energy to stir up a few clouds and maybe a sprinkle or two.

Your morning Iowa weather update around 80 degrees We're waking up to 63 degrees under gray skies, but a cold front slipped through overnight and left high pressure in charge. That means today dries out nicely, with sunshine breaking through and temperatures climbing to around 80 degrees. Light northwest winds keep things comfortable — perfect for an evening walk if you ask me.

Your 3pm Iowa weather update Active alerts: Severe Thunderstorm Watch, Severe Thunderstorm Watch, Severe Thunderstorm Watch. around 85 degrees Good afternoon, Iowa. A weak cold front is sliding through the state right now, but it's more of a gentle nudge than a shove. Most of us stay dry today with sunshine dominating.

Your morning Iowa weather update Active alerts: Flood Warning, Flood Warning, Flood Warning. around 85 degrees A cold front just sliced through overnight. And it's dragging scattered storms across the eastern half of the state right now. This thing's tied to a low spinning through Minnesota, shoving thunderstorms southeast.

Your 9pm Iowa weather update Active alerts: Flood Warning, Flood Warning, Flood Warning. around 62 degrees Seventy degrees outside right now, clear skies, calm air. And that perfect midsummer evening feel. Iowa splits into three different weather days.

Your midday Iowa weather update Active alerts: Flood Warning, Flood Warning, Flood Warning. around 79 degrees Good afternoon, Iowa. Step outside right now and you're feeling that sticky summer air — 79 degrees across central Iowa with just enough humidity to make you notice. A weak front is drifting through.

Your morning Iowa weather update Active alerts: Flood Warning, Flood Warning, Flood Warning. around 79 degrees A cold front is carving Iowa in two this morning. Western Iowa wakes up to 60 degrees with rain showers likely between 8 A.M.

Your 3pm Iowa weather update Active alerts: Flood Warning, Flood Warning, Flood Warning. around 77 degrees Good afternoon, Iowa. High pressure is parked right over us today. We're sitting at 76 degrees under clear skies.

Your morning Iowa weather update Active alerts: Flood Warning, Flood Warning, Flood Warning. around 77 degrees Yesterday's rain scrubbed the air clean and left us with a cool, refreshing start. We're sitting at 55 degrees right now. And high pressure is sliding in from the west.

Your 3pm Iowa weather update Active alerts: Flood Watch, Flood Watch, Flood Warning. around 65 degrees Good afternoon, Iowa. We just wrapped up a 24-hour soaking that dumped over half an inch of rain statewide. That low-pressure system is finally sliding east, but not before leaving us cloudy, damp.

Your morning Iowa weather update Active alerts: Flood Watch, Flood Watch, Flood Watch. around 68 degrees If you're heading out this morning, leave early. A slow-moving low is parked just south of us, dragging a warm front statewide and dumping rain. We've already picked up a third of an inch overnight.

Your 9pm Iowa weather update Active alerts: Flood Watch, Flood Watch, Flood Watch. around 60 degrees The rain machine is running wide open tonight, a deep low pressure system is pulling Gulf moisture straight north. And that tap stays on through the overnight hours. We're talking one to two inches of rain across most of the state, with some spots pushing three.

Your morning Iowa weather update Active alerts: Flood Warning, Flood Warning, Flood Warning. around 72 degrees Wondering why it feels more like April than mid-June? Thank that cold front that blew through overnight. It shoved out the humidity and left us with crisp, dry air and a stiff northwest wind.

Your 3pm Iowa weather update Active alerts: Severe Thunderstorm Watch, Flood Warning, Flood Warning. around 82 degrees Good afternoon, Iowa. A cold front is slicing across Iowa right now. And it's bringing storms with it.

Your morning Iowa weather update Active alerts: Severe Thunderstorm Warning, Severe Thunderstorm Warning, Special Weather Statement. around 82 degrees Grab your umbrella and charge your phone, a cold front is barreling through Iowa today. And it's bringing two rounds of thunderstorms, the first wave hits western Iowa this morning. The second, bigger batch fires up statewide this afternoon and even...

Your 3pm Iowa weather update Active alerts: Flood Warning, Flood Warning, Flood Warning. around 83 degrees Good afternoon, Iowa. Step outside right now and you'll feel 81 degrees of pure summer sunshine. Light breeze, clear skies, not a cloud in sight.

Your morning Iowa weather update Active alerts: Flood Advisory, Flood Warning, Flood Warning. around 83 degrees A dry cold front slipped through overnight and left us with a gift: crystal clear skies and 56 degrees at sunrise. High pressure takes over today, so Here comes wall-to-wall sunshine and a breezy Friday to close out the workweek. Western Iowa gets the warmest punch.

Your 9pm Iowa weather update Active alerts: Flood Warning, Flood Advisory, Flood Advisory. around 56 degrees That cold front that brought us four-tenths of an inch of rain? It's already halfway to Illinois, high pressure is sliding in behind it. And you're about to feel the difference.

Your midday Iowa weather update Active alerts: Flood Watch, Flood Watch, Flood Watch. around 80 degrees Good afternoon, Iowa. Severe weather is bearing down on Iowa right now, a low-pressure system over south-central Iowa is dragging a cold front statewide. And where warm humid air meets that cooler push, thunderstorms are exploding.

Your evening Iowa weather update Active alerts: Flood Warning, Tornado Watch, Flood Warning. around 65 degrees That sticky air clinging to your skin? A storm system sitting over the Midwest is feeding on this muggy mess.