The month of November kicked off with clouds and slightly cooler-than-normal temperatures, but there was a rebound, as the start of this week began with sunny skies and slightly above normal temperatures for this time of year. The high temperature in Hampton reached the low 60s Monday and Tuesday.
Meteorologist Dan Holiday, who is President of The Storm Report, tells RadioOnTheGo News you should enjoy this weather while it lasts because cooler temperatures and precipitation will return this weekend.
“It looks like the next storm system that’s going to be on the way in will be right around Friday. We can see a low pressure system coming right nearby over Western and Southern Iowa. Another system is going to be sweeping by, this looks like a frontal boundary around the 10th of November. That would be the following Monday. We see another storm that wants to come in around the 14th, and that’s a pretty decent one. There’s some strong north winds associated with it, so we’ll see if it’s going to be like a rain snow mix. But then once we get past that to Sunday the 16th, it looks to be dry. So there are three different systems it looks like coming in.”
While nothing is set in stone, Holiday says we could see a cooler-than normal period through late January.
“The Climate Prediction Center released what’s called the three-month outlook. These are very, very general. It doesn’t mean it’s going to do one thing or the other, but it is showing that we are going to have cooler than average temperatures over that three month period and it shows that we will have above normal precipitation. And that’s primarily over northern and eastern Iowa. Once you get just a hair south down into the southwestern corner of Iowa, we’re more on the average trend. And when it comes to Thanksgiving, one to two weeks from now, we’ll get a good handle on the computer models. It will show us if a storm system is coming in around the 27th. It’s just a little too far out now to know exactly if we’re gonna get a storm or not, but we do know the overall trend is going to turn cooler and wetter. So just be prepared for that.”
Highs late this weekend into early next week are forecast to be in the mid-to-upper 30s with lows around 20 degrees.
