For the 4th consecutive Friday snow will fall in my area. Here's the latest on the storm and what you can expect in what I'm calling the "4th installment". Roll weather...TS

The next system to impact the region with snow is beginning to come together over Kansas. Low pressure at 500mb is closing off as it gets set to make the bend and push into Missouri tonight. Moisture is already being pulled northward and that will spread snow back into my area tonight, especially after midnight.

Occasional light to moderate snow should last into Friday (even Friday night over the area southeast of a line from roughly Dubuque to Ce...

Slowly but surely the first part of our double barreled storm system made its way across the region Wednesday. Snow fell over a large part of Iowa but as it moved east it fizzled a bit east of the Mississippi as it encountered resistance from dry air and out ran its upper air support. In general accumulations were in the 1-3" range.

The totals you see below are from the Iowa Mesonet through 2:25 am. Some places had more but the reports have n...

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