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| Jan. 17th Snow Totals in Iowa |
A narrow corridor of 1"-3" fell right in central Iowa into eastern Iowa. You can check it out from a satellite perspective here. This new blanket of white could help push Iowa over the edge from our mild pattern into a snowy 2nd half of winter. The basic meteorology behind this theory is snow is cold and with snow on the ground we'll be colder. Colder air tends to help direct the jetstream further south. The jetstream has been well north of Iowa most of the winter causing storm systems to miss us to the north. Now the pattern will have an easier time pushing more snow chances into Iowa. So in a sense, snow can help future snow chances snowball.
Are you sick of the word snow yet? Sorry, but here is our next chance of snow :)
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| This is a computer model's prediction for snow totals on the 20th. |
It looks like Friday we might see a band developing overhead. Most models are taking this up into northern and NE IA, but I think colder surface air could help shift this storm further south. Keep track of this dynamic forecast in central Iowa with our 7-day on myabc5.com. Regardless, it looks like we'll be talking about a chance of snow every 2-3 days for the next two weeks which is perfect for the January Antlerless hunters trying to make the most out of the last two weeks and for the ice fishermen itching to get on the water. The more snow we get, the colder it gets!
This last storm had such cold air with it that it created waterspouts over the open waters of the Missouri river. This extremely rare phenomenon was captured on film so check out the link here.
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