Good evening everyone! I wanted to get an update as many start heading to bed on the potential for storng storms overnight into early Monday morning. Overall, the forecast from last night remains mostly on track with severe weather ongoing to the west including damaging wind gusts over 70mph and a few tornadoes. Tornado Watches extend through central Iowa, southern Minnesota and northwest Missouri until at least 3 a.m. with more watches possible if the storms maintain strengt

A multi-day severe weather event continues across the Upper Midwest this weekend and will persist into the early part of the week. Damaging wind, large hail an d tornadoes are likely over the next few days, but the bulk of the strongest severe weather may be just west of the Quad Cities region as we mainly get the "leftovers" as the storms slowly weaken heading east. A Level 3 of 5 Risk is in place Sunday and Monday (Enhanced, Orange) with a Level 4 of 5 Risk (Moderate, Red)

One week. Two cold fronts. It's a bit of an interesting week as we start off rather chilly with lows in the upper 30s/low 40s before we end the week with highs in the 80s. Between now and then we are watching two separate cold fronts that have a very different environment to work with. The first, Tuesday, will have limited moisture supply while a second around Friday will have more moisture and upper level support that could warrant a potential severe weather threat. The HRRR

As Terry continues to recover, the weather decided to take a long break from the recent excitement. I know he's happy to not be missing much, just as I am sure everyone could enjoy a bit of a spring warmup. Thank you all for keeping him in your thoughts as he recovers in the ICU through the weekend! Locally, we will be watching an overall warming trend over the next week as a strong ridge in the jet stream takes over. Above you can see the five-day temperature anomalies this

Monday will be a very warm one across the Midwest ahead of a potent cold front that will send temperatures tumbling through the rest of the week. Highs Monday will push into the low 80s for most under sunny skies and breezy southwest wind gusts. As the cold front sweeps through there may be a few spotty showers, but the highest chance for appreciable rain will be the southeast based on the evening model guidance. Still, given the strong upper air support with the cold front,