Winter Storm: April 4-5

Another potent storm system is taking shape to impact the state tremendously beginning Saturday evening and continuing into Sunday. The low pressure system is expected to track through southeast Iowa on Sunday, which will likely leave parts of the northern half of the state under a potentially heavy snowband. Many of the models have come into a consensus on the potential of 6-12 inches of snow, with some amounts even over a foot possible within this heavy snowband.

Although models are currently struggling with the exact timing and speed of this low pressure system, which will have an effect on the storm total amounts. The HPC (Hydrometeorological Prediction Center) does seem to have fairly good confidence in this system, as they issued their day 3 outlook with a moderate chance (>40%) of over a foot of snow on a band from south of Sioux City to the northeast through Mason City, etc...

An ironic forecast as the 13th Annual Severe Storms & Doppler Radar Conference got underway this afternoon in West Des Moines. Another update will likely be published tomorrow, good night from West Des Moines!