Statewide Iowa — Forecasters say Iowa’s weather will warm up and stay dry headed into the year-end holidays, making for easier travel by road and air.
Rose White, at Triple-A-Iowa, says between this Saturday and New Year’s Day, a record of 115-million people will take to the highways and skies, the eighth straight year of new record highs for travel volume.
White says air travel volume will be the highest since 2003, an increase of nearly five-percent from last year, rising by 320-thousand passengers. People love to travel to see friends and family during the Christmas and New Year’s holidays, White says, especially when times are good.
Gasoline prices have fallen during December, with demand at its lowest point since February. White says the national average gas price is $2.55, down five cents a gallon in the past month.
Here in northwest Iowa, gas prices are within a penny or two of $2.39 a gallon as of mid-morning Friday (December 20th).
