Thursday, December 21, 2006

Pre-Christmas Winter Storm

Update #4

Rain has fallen most of the night and is currently still occurring, the roadways are wet and the ground is very mushy with the large amounts of rain that have fallen over the past 24 hours. Winter Weather Advisory still in effect for the counties of Dickinson, Osceola and Lyon counties in northwest Iowa, surrounding areas of southwest Minnesota as well as South Dakota are in at least an advisory as well. Look for raining conditions to continue into the afternoon, then changing over to snow as the temperature begins to drop around 3 pm today… This will likely cause some freezing conditions on roadways making travel hazardous once again. Snowfall amounts are still variable with warmer than expected temperatures so far in the area, thus rainfall turning over to light snow is the likely wording you will hear today. Thus, icy conditions are the reasoning behind the advisory.

Only rain here to speak of, had ice last night but with slightly warmer temperatures and the rain that has melted off. Look for icy conditions to develop once again this evening/tonight however…

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