Snow showers worked their way across the state this afternoon and still are as we work our way towards the evening. Some areas of the state only saw snow flurries for an hour or two, while other areas have seen snow for most of the afternoon. Here in Ames, it has been snowing since around 11:30 AM...
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Monday, January 29, 2007
New Equipment!!
If you haven't noticed the new lists on the right featuring 'Equipment Owned', etc. this is the post to tell you about my new equipment! This weekend I went home to pick up my new camera, Canon Rebel XTi as well as the CF card and my two lenses that I currently own for the camera. The first lens is...
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Weekend Storm #2 Totals
Most of the snow is working its' way out of the area, eastern as well as parts of northern Iowa may see some moderate snow before Noon still. Other parts of the states may see flurries for the most part,...
Saturday, January 20, 2007
Weekend Storm #2
6 PM Update: Off-hour model runs' this afternoon showed an increasing potential for significant snow across portions of central Iowa, with some areas potentially seeing greater than the 6 inches that were mentioned in the previous Snow Advisories. This has prompted the NWS out of Des Moines to issue...
Friday, January 19, 2007
Welcome to the Iowa Chaser Blog!!
For the last several months you have been able to read my blog on the StormCenterUSA website, under the title of 'Storm Chasing & Iowa Weather'. Well with my redesign of the website as a whole to the new name 'Iowa Chaser' I have also decided to create a new blog setup. The new setup is geared...
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
New Website Design!
I have finally finished the new website design and today I finally have redirected all the previous pages and put the new website ‘online’ so to say. The new website goes under the name, ‘Iowa Chaser’ which was sparked by my new license plate that I received as a gift from my girlfriend. I hope you...
Sunday, January 14, 2007
Weekend Snowstorm (Final Report)
This will begin the ‘LIVE’ updates on snowfall over the area, currently I’m in northwest Iowa (Terril) and the snow began just over an hour ago. Accumulations have been fairly light, although a 1/2 inch of snow in the past hour with mainly flurries is kind of impressive. Snow Advisories have been posted...
Saturday, January 13, 2007
Weekend Snowstorm (Update #4)
A short and quick update for the northern plains as the snow is beginning in some areas with the first light wave of precipitation. Other small bands of snow will occur tonight and into early tomorrow with only light accumulation expected. The heavier snows should begin Sunday afternoon into the night...
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Weekend Snowstorm (Update #3)
Forecast #1 - January 13-15 Snowstorm The first official forecast that I’m going to make on this storm is still a pretty darn hard one to make, the trend of the models is currently a slightly weaker storm with a further south track. The latest model runs tonight from the NAM/WRF and GFS aren’t in...
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Weekend Snowstorm (Update #2)
The GFS model has been fairly consistent in the major features of the storm and to much surprise so far, fairly consistent in even some of the minor features over the plains. If you read last nights’ update you saw how the GFS run 24 hours ago jumped up in the snow amounts and had started a slight...
Tuesday, January 9, 2007
Weekend Snowstorm!
Once again another system coming in from the south will likely cause problems for the central/northern Plains this weekend. An arctic air cold front should push over the area Thursday/Thursday night and begin to drop the temperatures through the weekend. The first shortwave expected with the cold front...
Sunday, January 7, 2007
Spring Semester Begins!
Well despite the nearly month long vacation, it still seems like it just wasn’t long enough as the spring semester here at Iowa State begins tomorrow. My first class of the semester officially begins at 9 am tomorrow, luckily it is a Meteorology class. This semester is filled with a couple of tough...
Thursday, January 4, 2007
Snowstorm No More???
Well although models had a fairly good recognition of the system, they managed to mess this one up until last night. Models have quickly went further south with the system and much weaker with it as well. This has prompted most of the NWS offices to push their chances of snow way down and in some cases...
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Next Snowstorm...
The next storm system moving into the plains looks to bring snow to the area once again, this time it looks to be fairly well forecasted. Models are quick to bring in the arctic air and thus snow is likely the main form of precipitation across the northern 1/3rd of Iowa on Friday, the central third...
Monday, January 1, 2007
New Year’s Eve Snowstorm
The potential winter storm for the northern plains was forecasted well in advance, but for Iowa and even Minnesota it was looking to be mainly a rain event. This was true, all up until Sunday when the low pressure system strengthened and pulled in colder air much quicker than the early forecasts had...
