Iowa (RI) — Memorial Day weekend may be the unofficial start of summer, but the warm weather will arrive a week late this year. After high temperatures much of this week below normal in the 60s and 70s, meteorologist Dave Cousins, at the National Weather Service, says a heat wave will start to roll in on Friday, with a steamy forecast for next week.
The forecast calls for much of Iowa to see highs Friday in the upper 70s and low 80s, with a gradual increase coming as the month of June nears.
Some long-time residents say it’s just not Iowa unless you run both the heater and the air conditioner in your car the same week, sometimes on the same day. Along with the relatively abrupt changes in temperature comes the risk of severe weather, so Cousins reminds Iowans to be “weather aware.”
The first day of meteorological summer is June 1st, though the season won’t officially arrive until June 20th.
