Monthly Rain Totals

Gigantic Jets

Weather Radios Recalled

Near-Record U.S. Warmth In 2006

Monthly Rain Totals

ALTHOUGH WATERLOO DID NOT EXPERIENCE FLOODING TO THE EXTENT OF OTHER   
PLACES IN IOWA…WATERLOO HAS SET THE RECORD FOR THE WETTEST AUGUST   
ON RECORD.  THE MONTHLY TOTAL SO FAR HAS BEEN 10.32 INCHES WHICH   
ECLIPSES THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF 10.08 INCHES SET IN 1998.  THE LAST   
TIME A MONTHLY RAINFALL TOTAL EXCEEDED 10.00 INCHES WAS [...]

Gigantic Jets

Have you ever seen a gigantic jet? They are extremely rare but tremendously powerful. Click here for more.

Weather Radios Recalled

Weather radios produced by Oregon Scientific Inc. are being recalled due to failure to receive National Weather Service alerts. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission on Wednesday announced the voluntary recall of about 66,000 of four models of Tualatin-based Oregon Scientific weather radios. Click here for more.

Near-Record U.S. Warmth In 2006

Greenhouse gases likely accounted for more than half of the widespread warmth across the continental United States last year, according to a new study by four scientists at NOAA’s Earth System Research Lab in Boulder, Colo. Last year’s average temperature was the second highest since record-keeping began in 1895. Click here for more.

24 Hour Rain Totals 7AM Tue-7AM Wed

24 Hour Rain Totals 7AM Tue-7AM Wed

1.73″ Marquette
1.50″ 3 mi W Marquette
1.29″ Bluffton
1.24″ 8 mi NE Decorah
0.93″ 4 mi SE Steuben, WI
0.90″ Ion
0.83″ Elma
0.81″ Waukon (August total 19.08″)
0.78″ Charles City
0.74″ Decorah
0.71″ Prairie du Chien, WI
0.67″ 5 mi ENE Independence
0.67″ St. Ansgar
0.65″ 3 mi E Elgin (August total 13.40″)
0.62″ Boscobel, WI
0.61″ Charles City COOP
0.55″ Osage
0.28″ Belle Plaine
0.24″ Elkader
0.22″ Waterloo
0.20″ Coggon
0.17″ Stanley
0.15″ Edgewood
0.11″ Oelwein
0.09″ [...]