We started off spring with multiple rounds of heavy rain and severe weather mixed in, however the forecast in the short term, in addition to longer-term trends, looks quite dry across the region heading into June. Above, the official forecast from the Weather Prediction Center shows little if any rain over eastern Iowa, northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin over the next seven days. RRFS - Wednesday/Thursday AM Rain Euro - Wednesday/Thursday AM Rain Wednesday looks like th

Sunny and warm conditions continue through Memorial Day weekend and through much of the last week of May as an overall quiet pattern takes over the Upper Midwest. Highs Sunday (above) are forecast to be in the low 80s across the area under a mainly sunny sky. Monday, for your Memorial Day, temperatures creep up a little more into the mid 80s with still a mainly sunny sky with much warmer temperatures building off to the west across the central Plains. By Tuesday areas will wa

Good evening, friends. Meteorologist Nick Stewart here with a quick update on the storm threat Monday evening as we are nearing the end of this really active stretch. As of 9:30 p.m., all severe thunderstorm and tornado warnings in Iowa have been allowed to expire, however conditions remain viable for storms to re-intensify to severe limits. Damaging wind gusts and perhaps a tornado or two remain likely as this line of storms drifts east across Iowa into northern Missouri and

Good evening everyone! I wanted to get an update as many start heading to bed on the potential for storng storms overnight into early Monday morning. Overall, the forecast from last night remains mostly on track with severe weather ongoing to the west including damaging wind gusts over 70mph and a few tornadoes. Tornado Watches extend through central Iowa, southern Minnesota and northwest Missouri until at least 3 a.m. with more watches possible if the storms maintain strengt

A multi-day severe weather event continues across the Upper Midwest this weekend and will persist into the early part of the week. Damaging wind, large hail an d tornadoes are likely over the next few days, but the bulk of the strongest severe weather may be just west of the Quad Cities region as we mainly get the "leftovers" as the storms slowly weaken heading east. A Level 3 of 5 Risk is in place Sunday and Monday (Enhanced, Orange) with a Level 4 of 5 Risk (Moderate, Red)