Active winter weather has been the case for this week with strong winds driving a ground blizzard over northern Iowa on Thursday afternoon. The featured chart presents the headlines issued by NWS Des Moines since 3 January for their forecast area of responsibility. The bars represent the time period that the headline was valid for at least one forecast zone in the state. The have only been brief periods in the past seven days that no headline was active.

Voting:
Good = 38
Bad = 19
Abstain = 12