Northwest Iowa — After last weekend’s cold snap and snow, this week has seemed comparatively pleasant.
National Weather Service Meteorologist Brad Temeyer at the Sioux Falls office says that while it seems nice, temperatures are not that much above normal.
He tells us that while the system will probably have some precipitation, it won’t be heavy and widespread.
According to Temeyer, it will be warm enough that any precip that does fall this weekend into Monday will be rain, and not snow. But he says looking at the middle to the end of next week, like starting around October 23rd, there may again be some precip, and at this point, it’s hard to predict whether that will fall as rain or snow.
We asked Temeyer to peer into his crystal ball and tell us what the rest of the fall and the first part of the winter will be like. He says while below normal temperatures are forecast for next week, as a whole, chances are better than even that temperatures will be above normal for the remainder of October, November, December, and into January. But he says chances are also better than even that we’ll see above-normal precipitation throughout that period too.
For more information, follow the link below……………………
https://www.noaa.gov/media-release/winter-outlook-warmer-than-average-for-many-wetter-in-north
