Past IEM Features tagged: winter2425
The IEM generates per winter storm analyses of snowfall reports over Iowa and tags them by the winter season. Here are the tags used for the previous winter seasons that these maps are available for:
- Winter 2010-2011
- Winter 2011-2012
- Winter 2012-2013
- Winter 2013-2014
- Winter 2014-2015
- Winter 2015-2016
- Winter 2016-2017
- Winter 2017-2018
- Winter 2018-2019
- Winter 2019-2020
- Winter 2020-2021
- Winter 2021-2022
- Winter 2022-2023
- Winter 2023-2024
- Winter 2024-2025
'24-'25 Winter Storm #3
18 Dec 2024 08:20 AMWhile not much for a winter storm, a quick moving system brought some rain, freezing, and snow to mostly the northern half of the state. There were a few isolated two inch snow fall reports found over northeastern Iowa, so the arbitrary threshold for IEM map generation / storm counting was triggered. Another quick moving snow producing storm is expected this evening with similar amounts of light snowfall. For those of you hoping this bit of snowfall sticks around for a week, above freezing temperatures are expected next week and even tomorrow, so the chances of a White Christmas are very slim at the moment.
Voting:
Good: 13
Bad: 0
Tags: winter2425
'24-'24 Winter Storm #2
15 Dec 2024 08:30 PMFriday evening into Saturday brought a significant ice storm to eastern Iowa with the Cedar Rapids to Iowa City corridor the hardest hit. The featured map presents available NWS Local Storm Reports of freezing rain accumulations. The map also plots the extent of the Ice Storm Warnings issued by the NWS for the event. Far northeastern Iowa did also get an inch or so of snowfall along with some freezing rain. Thankfully, temperatures warmed above freezing for much of the state on Saturday and for the entire state on Sunday, which helped to reduce impacts from this event.
Voting:
Good: 19
Bad: 0
Tags: winter2425
'24-'25 Winter Storm #1
03 Dec 2024 05:30 AMThe first wide spread snowfall over Iowa of the season fell on Monday with most locations picking up 1.5 inches or less. There were a couple of isolated two inch reports, so this met the arbitrary threshold for the IEM to generate a snowfall event map. The featured map presents an analysis of available NWS and CoCoRaHS reports. This snowfall was tremendously fluffy with snow to liquid water equivalent (SWE) ratios around 40 and above. A more typical SWE value in Iowa is closer to 13, so it was certainly not much trouble to shovel such fluff away. You can find more maps like these for previous winters by clicking the winter2425 tag associated with this feature post.
Voting:
Good: 11
Bad: 0
Tags: winter2425