The Iowa Environmental Mesonet (IEM) collects environmental data from cooperating members with observing networks. The data are stored and made available on this website.
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Snow cover gone soon
Posted: 09 Feb 2026 05:30 AM, Views: 232
The featured chart presents an IEM estimate of the fraction of Iowa covered by measurable snow each day this cold season. As of Sunday morning, such snow was confined to northeastern Iowa and the warm weather forecast to start this week will quickly melt it away. The intense start to winter during early December gave way to a very warm stretch that lasted into mid January and rather meager snowfall events since.
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Data from the Iowa State Soil Moisture Network is found on this website and daily soil temperature averages are used to produce the highlighted analysis.
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The IEM combines data from participating networks into products like maps shown above and web applications to analyze the data.