Outdoor Report

The heat has finally broken and it feels great to be back to average!

Now that temps are back on even keel, let's hope we get some rain!

Interestingly, this year has been below average on the whole here in Iowa. Meanwhile, global temperatures are still way above average. Global climate change is a touchy topic. According to the University of Alabama in Huntsville it is very apparent that we have been in a warm cycle for the past several years on the planet.

This is a plot showing global average temperature anomaly. The zero line would be "normal".

This year a western heat ridge has been dominating the weather pattern. At the same time it has been unseasonably cool for the eastern U.S. Most of the moisture has been pushed to the south of Iowa with Colorado, Kansas, Missouri and most of the Southeast seeing flooding rains.

Notice the orange indicating a very large, unseasonably warm pocket
 in NW North America in August.

It will be interesting to see what this Fall and Winter bring to Iowa. I'll take my annual long shot at the 1, 2 and 3 month outlook a little later this month.

The Outdoor Report airs Friday and Saturday at 6 and 10pm.

I'm also proud to announce we are also putting out an Outdoor Report sponsored by Stivers. We'll focus on the hunting and fishing weather and give you the barometric pressure trends and wind direction forecast for the following day.