You know the old saying, when it rains it pours. Well we couldn't buy a drop of rain mid-August through February with some places in eastern Iowa posting deficits up to 11inches. Then, as often happens, when the pattern breaks, it does so with a vengeance. Here's the rainfall deficits in Iowa from August 15th, 2025 through March 31st, 2006. Over 11 inches around Ottumwa in SE Iowa! Then came April and so did the rains. These are rainfall departures since April 1st. Most of ea

AN UPDATE ON TERRY'S HEALTH, MORE SEVERE WEATHER AGAIN WEDNESDAY Howdy everyone! While Terry takes care of his health, I wanted to pop in quickly with an update on the ongoing severe weather concerns across the region this week. We had numerous tornadoes and destructive hail events on Tuesday with severe weather. and we have yet another risk taking shape for Wednesday and Friday of this week. Above you can see the latest HRRR run for Wednesday evening showing more scattered t

THERE IS A SIGNIFICANT THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER LATE TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MORE ON THE CONCERN LATER IN THE POST.... He may not be Springsteen, but around here Sayed Ahmadjan (MD) is known as the boss. He's the attending senior physician in charge of caring for people like me on the 6th floor of the University of Iowa Hospital. He manages more than a handful of people, as part of an internal medicine team that oversees my case and makes all the decisions regarding my treatment

Sunday was as a relatively down day on the 6th floor floor of the University of Iowa hospital. Few procedures take place unless they we're of the urgent nature. Even so there was plenty of activity with every room occupied at this popular medical facility. A stellar moment for me was getting to go to the "big shower room" where I was able to take a shower for the fist time in a week. It was a transforming experience and I suspect all of the people who ended up close to me not

For many of you around the Midwest, the name Terry Swails, is synonymous with weather. There's an association that goes back 48 years to the time I gave my first television broadcastcast for KWWL TV in 1978. My television days are behind me now, but not my passion for the science of weather that has brought 5 decades of me leading the charge against tornadoes, blizzards, and floods. I was they guy in the box for some of the most historic weather events ever in eastern Iowa an