Some light freezing rain and drizzle remains across portions of northern and eastern Iowa this afternoon, however a majority of the precipitation has fallen across these areas. The hardest hit areas with freezing rain occurred in portions of western Iowa, mainly over areas surrounding Denison where as much as one inch of ice accumulation occurred. Other areas in the state received near a quarter of an inch of ice accumulation, which was significant enough to cause some travel problems along with several brief power outages. The latest electric cooperative data shows that as many as 10,000 Iowans are currently without power due to the ice accumulation on lines, with a majority of them in western Iowa. In addition to the ice accurral, some hoar frost had already accumulated on power lines to make matters worse as the freezing rain began last night.
To view the summary of freezing rain accumulations across Iowa, check out the Des Moines NWS image below:
We now look forward to a small break in the weather before our next system enters the plains states for the weekend. Updates on this weekends storm later on tomorrow...
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