A foggy start this morning around the rivers, but a great weekend ahead. Cool temperatures with clear skies allowed fog to form over the warmer river waters this morning. Skies remain mostly sunny today as high pressure slides east. Temperatures will be above normal in the upper 50s. Normal high is 51 for this time of year.
The sun sets this evening at 5:20 p.m. with the weather remaining quiet tonight. It will be another seasonably cool night with temperatures headed into the upper 30s. Expect to see patchy fog again near the rivers on Sunday morning.
Sunday will again be mostly sunny, but clouds will start to increase late in the day. Highs remain mild in the upper 50s. We become mostly cloudy Sunday night and stay that way into Monday. Monday will be dry with highs continued above normal in the upper 50s.
Another cold front heads our way on Tuesday bringing back a chance of rain. We start to feel the colder temperatures behind it by Wednesday as highs only make it into the upper 40s. We will see the chance for rain Wednesday afternoon.
Thanksgiving Day does not look very good if you plan on being outside, but the forecast will be perfect for staying indoors to eat Thanksgiving Dinner. It will cold on Thanksgiving with a high only of 43 degrees. Morning temperatures start off in the mid 30s and models are currently showing the chance for a few snowflakes to mix in with the rain on Thursday. Temperatures will remain above freezing, so there will be no accumulation. However, we should see our first snowflake by Thanksgiving morning.
Temperatures remain cold for Black Friday, so bundle up as your head out. The forecast will be drier but highs remain in the mid 40s.
TODAY
Mostly sunny
Few clouds
and milder
High 58
TONIGHT
Mostly clear.
Low 39
SUNDAY
Patchy fog early.
Mostly sunny,
then clouds
increase late.
HIGH 58
NASA Image Unveiling-Drake Planetarium
The International Year of Astronomy 2009 celebrates the 400th anniversary of
Galileo turning a telescope to the heavens. NASA's Great Observatories (Hubble, Chandra, Spitzer) represent the achievements of astronomy four centuries later and are honoring
this legacy with a spectacular national image unveiling. This is a composite image of all three Space Observatories. The entire story is in our weather video player on the front page.
http://www.drakeplanetarium.org/
7th Coldest October Ever!
The Midwest experienced much below average temperatures, with the western part of the region (Iowa) experiencing average temperatures as much as eight degrees Fahrenheit below normal and the eastern parts of the region experiencing average temperatures two degrees below normal. 1485 low maximum and 198 low minimum temperature records were set or tied. Precipitation was heavy: Out of 965 stations, 192 recorded their wettest October on record, and precipitation was as high as 400 percent above normal in the southern part of the region. The cool and wet temperatures contributed to the late harvest of soybean and corn crops.
Your Watershed Address
Watersheds are areas of land in which all water drains into a common body of water. Because water does not obey political boundaries, watershed maps can cross county, state and even national lines. The size of a watershed can vary, but all bodies of water have one. You can think of watersheds like pieces of a puzzle; each one is part of a larger watershed “picture.”
The Mississippi River Watershed is made up of several smaller watersheds, including the Missouri River, Arkansas/White River, Red River, Upper Mississippi, Ohio/Tennessee River and Lower Mississippi River Watersheds – all of which are made up of even smaller watersheds. Anytime a raindrop falls in Iowa, eastern Montana or even western Pennsylvania, that raindrop could end up in the Mississippi River – and eventually the Gulf of Mexico!
Viewer Tip: Do you know your watershed address?
- Surf your watershed: Enter your zip code to find out which watershed you live in. http://cfpub.epa.gov/surf/locate/index.cfm.
- Explore your watershed: Take a walk or hike in your community and observe which way water travels. Watershed boundaries are usually the highest points of land from which water flows downhill. Where does rain water end up after it hits the ground? Where does your local stream or river lead?
