Please consider supporting local journalism by subscribing. Anna Spoerre can be contacted at at 51 or on Twitter Note: This story is being provided free to all readers as a public service by the Register. ► More: Ask the experts: What features are best for driving through snow?įollow the Register on Facebook and Twitter for more news. West Des Moines: 3 inches as of 7:45 a.m.Guthrie Center: 6 inches as of 9:50 a.m.Reported Sunday totals from around the state include: Sunday, with a blizzard warning in effect through the evening hours for much of the state north and west of the capital, according to the National Weather Service. ► More: 'I'm here to help': Nebraska woman reconnects with Iowa stranger who stayed by her family's side after a traumatic winter crashĪ winter weather advisory issued by the National Weather Service remains in effect in Des Moines through 6 p.m. Sunday, and a whopping 15 fell in Buffalo Center, northwest of Mason City, by 9:45 a.m. The fresh powder was enough to break Des Moines' record for snowiest February, with 24.1 inches falling (so far) in February 2019, toppling the old record of 22.7 inches, set back in February 2008.Ĭouncil Bluffs had seen 8 inches as of 9 a.m. Sunday, the Des Moines International Airport had seen 2.6 inches of new snowfall, according to the National Weather Service. ► More: Interstate 35 closed north of Ames travel not advised across most of Iowa as winds pick up following weekend winter stormĪt 6:30 a.m. Trace amounts of snow in the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma were reported on Thursday morning, but there was little accumulation because the ground was too warm, said Tabatha Seymore, observing program leader at the National Weather Service in Amarillo.View Gallery: Northeast Iowa digging out from blizzard 14 with a total of 9. Fridays storm broke Des Moines daily record for snowfall on Jan. Since it continued to snow past midnight, the snowstorm didnt set any new single-day snowstorms records, but it did break a daily record. Between 2 and 6 inches of snow was predicted for parts of the central plains and the upper Midwest. More than a foot of snow fell in central Iowa Friday into early Saturday morning. Before, the highest snowfall on that day was. 14 with a total of 9.8 inches, according to data from the National Weather Service. Total snow accumulation was expected to be 10 to 20 inches in the Rockies with up to 6 inches in the Denver area, the National Weather Service said. Fridays storm broke Des Moines daily record for snowfall on Jan. The National Weather Service has issued winter storm warnings from southeast Minnesota to northwest Wisconsin and weather advisories for eastern Colorado and the upper Midwest that will continue throughout Thursday. It just didn’t really stop in some places.” “Then, this cold front really stalled out over central Iowa and it just kept snowing and snowing. “This was a tough system to judge in that there was such a tight gradient between the rain, freezing rain, and snow,” said Kurt Kotenberg, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. The city measured 5.3 of dry, fluffy snow, which breaks the 5.1 record from 1975. “We are getting pounded with a bunch of snow,” said Gwen Rosengarten, a dispatcher for sheriff’s department in Bayfield County, Wisconsin where about a foot of snow has fallen. IOWA Thursday’s snowfall broke a record in Des Moines. The snowfall will likely break seasonal records in portions of Wisconsin and Minnesota, Keeney said. A strong winter storm brought the heaviest snow across Central to Southeastern Iowa through the day on Saturday. Some blowing snow may occur this morning with slick roads from the remaining snow. 8-9 of snow fell in parts of Southern and Eastern Iowa. Temperatures fell close to 30 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 1 degree Celsius), making for a heavy, wet snow that downed trees and caused power outages and road closures. Snow totals from Saturday ranged from 3-5 across the Metro. “The northernmost areas have seen snow in May before, but not of this magnitude,” said Jim Keeney, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service. The winter storm system has delivered about 18 inches of snow across parts of northwest Wisconsin and more than 15 inches in southern Minnesota, according to the National Weather Service. CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - A snowstorm brought heavy totals to a broad swath of eastern Iowa on Thursday, with a concentrated area of. MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - An unseasonable May storm system dropped more than a foot of snow across the central Plains and the upper Midwest on Thursday, closing roads and causing power outages in Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
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