Chris Kuball

While it may not be up to the vigor of the haze experienced on Tuesday afternoon, smoke will remain in the forecast for both Wednesday and Thursday. You’ll likely notice the haze when you’re outside. So far, most of the pollutants have remained elevated.Smoke is stemming from fires in SW Canada primarily. The plume of […]

Showers and t-storms develop along a cold front Thursday afternoon and evening. That front arrives on our western doorstep around 2 PM and progresses steadily east with time. Most activity will be out by sunset.Ingredients needed for stronger storms just aren’t coming together so it is anticipated any storms that move through will remain under […]

Another hazy day is ahead Thursday. As we’ve seen in recent afternoons, it has been enough to keep the temperatures under expectations due to that filter on the sun. We’ll expect the same on Thursday, despite a warming breeze.The biggest emphasis is actually the chance for rain on Thursday. From 1 PM to 9 PM […]

Smoke continues to fill the sky. Air quality continues to be a bit more poor. There are areas with moderately unhealthy air at the surface. Although, clearly most of the smoke is elevated.You’ll notice the smoke once again on Thursday. A cold front in the afternoon will look to help churn some of this smoke […]

After a cold front on Thursday evening, temperatures will drop significantly for Friday. A cool northwest breeze will take over but the clouds will do us in with the mercury.Initially on Friday, sunny skies will start the day. But that sunshine is self destructive as the airmass is quite cool. Warming will condense out a […]

The second part of Thursday will bring our best chance for rain on the week. Showers and storms will kick up on a cold front as it moves through.The main window is from 1 PM to 9 PM. Although a stray shower may fall outside that bounds. This activity moves in from the west and […]

There’s a lack of sunshine for Friday after seeing the first couple hours of the day open with it. It’s a scenario that should see an expanse of clouds take over as temperatures try to warm. That will in itself prevent temperatures from rising much more. We’ll be limited to the upper 50s to about […]

Temps are initially stunted for Friday but build back into the weekend as a ridge of warmer air builds in over the midwest. Next week, temps will commonly target the 80s.

Air quality continues to be impacted by wild fire smoke streaming in from Canada. Much of it has been elevated but some of those polluting particulates are making their way to the surface. The air quality is in the Moderate to Poor range. Those with respiratory illness may notice the impacts of this lowered air […]

A cold front brought in cooler temperatures across central Iowa, but with it came another burst of smoke from Canadian wildfires.