Hi everybody, I wanted to take a few minutes from my home in Dubuque to personally send my gratitude to the thousands of you who have have sent messages of hope and recovery following my recent life threatening health scare. Things were very tense for a time and involved a couple days I don't evening remember. Thankfully, the doctors and the good lord performed some amazing work and and left me to recover. The extent of my issues were rather extreme and something I personally

Hot and dry will be the theme to start the month of June with forecast models and analogs all supporting a prolonged stretch of quiet weather. Analogs, above, indicate a greater than 80% chance of above normal temperatures as we head into next weekend. The good news? The pattern may finally start to break down a bit giving way to some rain chances later in the period. More on that in a moment. For the Quad Cities, temperatures will be steadily increasing over the next 10 days

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