Statewide Iowa (RI) – Some forecasters are raising the possibility of heavy snowfall in Iowa next week, with an especially strong winter wallop for northern Iowa, potentially impacting Thanksgiving travel, but other forecasters are holding off on making a call until later.
Meteorologist Dylan Dodson at the National Weather Service says Thanksgiving is still a bit too far away to make an accurate prediction.
Computer forecasting models from the National Weather Service are not projecting anything that would make snowfall for Iowa likely in the six-to-ten day forecast.
With the agency’s eight-to-14-day forecast, he says temperatures are trending to near-normal with slightly above-normal precipitation. But is a ten-inch snowfall before Thanksgiving likely?
According to National Weather Service data from 1981 to 2010, the normal date for the first one-inch snowfall in northwest Iowa is between November 10th and 17th, with the first inch of snow typically falling much later in southeastern Iowa, between December 12th and the 19th.
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