A quick moving winter storm brought a downpour of moisture rich snowfall Friday morning. This was the first significant snowfall over Iowa since mid January. The featured map presents an analysis of available NWS COOP, LSR, and CoCoRaHS reports. It will be regenerated on Saturday morning once more COOP reports are received. As mentioned, the snow fell in quick fashion during the morning compute hours and created for significant travel issues. The largest totals of over six inches were found in eastern Iowa near Cedar Rapids. The gradient of snowfall on the southern end of this shown swath was very tight as temperatures were marginally cold enough to support snow and much of this area received rain and/or snowfall total robbing sleet/graupel. Our next chance of snowfall arrives Saturday night and into Sunday, but temperatures are expected to quickly rebound next week and so the snow won't stick around for too long.

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