I spent the vast majority of the weekend prepping the garden for the spring, and it looks like it was just in time. While the first part of the week remains pretty quiet, we will start to see rain chances picking up late Tuesday. A storm system will work it's way across the western U.S. ...

A few days ago, some of the weather models were forecasting a cool period next week. If you believed them, you would think highs in the 60s would be a safe bet. Now, however, these same guidance products are suggesting a return to the 70s at least — above normal temperatures once again — ...

While it’s still early in the season for many parts of tornado alley, these low numbers don’t really surprise me given what the El Nino phenomenon can do to the tornado frequency across the Plains. El Nino, though weakening, is still in place. And the jetstream structures that often ...

The warm and moist airmass moved toward Iowa Monday leaving us with highs near 80° with extremely humid conditions. Most of the severe storms, including a couple of tornado warnings, where in the extreme northern reaches of Kansas along that warm boundary. Tuesday will be the next ...

Much of our severe weather risk later today depends on how far north this warm front moves. Present indications are that it will lie roughly along a line from the KS/NE border northeastward across southern Iowa by evening. Zonally-oriented frontal zones like this one (i.e., those that lie ...

The last several Easter Sundays have been all over the board weather-wise. Looking back over the last three years was interesting to say the least. Here are the particulars through 2007: April 12, 2009 - High - 50° Low - 40° Rain: 0.64 inches March 23, 2008 - High - 49° Low - 26° ...