LIVE WEATHER BRIEFING 7:30 THURSDAY Meteorologist Nick Stewart and I will conduct a Facebook live weather briefing at 7:30pm. Thursday. The topics of discussion will be the record cold Thursday, snow potential this weekend, and the long range weather pattern into Christmas. I'm sure we'll hit on some other weather angles, especially with your questions encouraged. Again, the briefing airs on the Terry Swails Facebook page . For a meteorological deep dive like no other, settle

A few days ago, I mowed my grass. Today, it's under 10 inches of snow and my little corner of the world, (and for that matter the Midwest as a whole) has been whitewashed. Talk about a transformation, what an entirely different look. As you can see, 4–8 inches (in some cases as much as 12 inches) covers most of Iowa, southern Wisconsin, and northern Illinois. One of the things about snow cover, especially deep snow cover, is that it makes the world we live in colder. Without

After the big weekend storm and the little dust up we had Monday, it's looking like a winter wonderland around most of the Midwest. I realize there's a large percentage of you who don't appreciate the snow. I however, was thrilled to pick up 14 inches of white gold at my place in Dubuque. And I will say, if there is one redeeming aspect to snow, it's that Christmas lights look 10 times better in a mantel of white. I'm old-fashioned and sentimental about that. Something else

Quite an inconvenient snow starts again for the area Monday afternoon and evening as a new winter storm starts to take shape. This is the first of a few systems we are watching between now and next weekend with snow chances increasing and cold air really starting to become entrenched. Our first system and the one we have the most confidence in starts sweeping through the area by Monday afternoon. While nowhere near as much snow as the weekend winter storm, this will pack some

As we dig out from one of the biggest snowfalls for a November day on record in many areas, we are already eyeing the next potential hit of wintry weather in the coming days. Models have come in good agreement for a quick-moving system later in the day Monday towards early Tuesday morning. This is far from what we just experienced, just insult to injury mostly. One potential problem with this system is that it will likely have impacts on t he Monday evening commute as the tim