Happy Holidays everyone! Here's hoping the last couple of days have been exceptional, loaded with special people and memories of those who have enriched and shaped your life! Personally, I am spending time with family in Bloomington, Illinois. Due to the fact my wife says I need to be more involved with the family, this is a recap of January 1979, the worst overall month of winter weather regionally in modern history. Filled with bitter cold, tons of snow, and an epic blizzar

Merry Christmas one and all, here's hoping the day is exceptional, loaded with the special people and memories of those who have enriched and shaped your life! Personally, I am spending the next two days with family in Bloomington, Illinois. Due to the fact my wife says I need to be more involved, and the weather looks foggy, dreary, but quiet, this will be abbreviated. To compensate, I have tossed in my most memorable Christmas from a weather standpoint. In 1983, I was stran

Can you believe it, it's December 24th and Santa rides tonight. Seems like just yesterday I was mowing the lawn. Actually, I was mowing the lawn two days before Thanksgiving, which gives you a pretty good idea how mild our fall was until we flipped the switch to that crazy period of snow and cold to end November. One thing is for sure the remainder of this week and Saturday too, we remain very much on the mild side with cold and snow a no show for holiday travelers. Despite t

It's officially winter now, and wouldn't you know it, winter is nowhere to be seen, at least in its true form locally. The same can't be said for the last three weeks of fall, when cold and snow bombarded the region after Thanksgiving. Here in Dubuque, we had 18.3 inches of snow in the 10-day period November 28th through December 7th. Here's the snow totals from the Iowa Mesonet for the period November 28th through December 15th. Some spots in Cedar and Clinton County had up

Really no changes in the short term regarding a rather significant warmup this week with well-above-normal temperatures into Christmas Day. Temperature anomalies could be pushing 20-30+ degrees for a vast stretch of the central US. This comes with quiet weather as well, ideal for any travelers (like myself), so a much easier to deal with weather situation compared to the Thanksgiving holiday. With that said, locally temperatures have trended downward slightly, but things rema