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RELATIVELY QUIET: A few flurries or light snow showers will dot the sky today, but won’t amount to a lot. This will be the main weather story this week along with the seasonally cool temperatures. Readings will be in the 20s and 30s for highs with lows in the teens, typical of February.

MORE ACTIVE: Models are trending slightly more active toward the middle to end of the month, with a few chances of some precipitation but it’s still too far out to pinpoint any one storm, type of precip or when it’ll effect the state. As of now there doesn’t look to be any big arctic outbreaks coming down, one thing helping us out with that is lack of snow cover here and to our north and northwest (outside western into central Iowa)

CALM TRANQUIL: Little if any weather issues to report this week. A few flurries or light snow showers on Tuesday is all that will effect the state this week. The snow on Tuesday will be very light with a dusting to a few tenths of an inch possible, nothing to write home about. Temperatures today will be above average but will settle to seasonal levels for the rest of the week, 30s for highs lows in the teens to lower 20s.

INTERESTING LATTER HALF: The month has a few more issues that are yet unresolved given the amount of time between now and then. This run shows a few minor systems that may bring some wintry precipitation to the state, but as of now the amounts look to be light given the lack of a return flow from the Gulf of Mexico. Cold air will still be in place with a possible clipper system in two weeks time, but nothing overly arctic given the lack of snow cover (outside central into western and southwestern Iowa where snow is on the ground)

BECOMING QUIETER: After some places saw 5-10+” of snow Friday night into Saturday, the state will be in for some quieter and cooler, but seasonal weather over teh next week. Today and Monday however will see some sunshine (more during afternoon) with readings climbing back into the 40s across the east, (cooler in snowpack areas) It’s late Monday into Tuesday when cold air from Canada sweeps in bringing more February temps to the state but given the lack of snow especially across northern and eastern Iowa, this will just be temps in the 30s for highs and lows a few degrees either side of 20.

NO BIG STORMS: Further along weak disturbances seem to be the rule at least with this run. There is a noticeable lack of precipitation across the area over the next two weeks and given that NW Iowa is still in Moderate to Severe Drought, that is not a good thing.