After a number of rounds of snow flurries last week that did not produce much more than a trace of reported depth, a slightly more substantial area of snow moved across Iowa on Sunday with a few locations reporting just over an inch of new snowfall. There was also an area of freezing rain during the day on Sunday over northeastern Iowa that made this event more than just a nuisance snowfall. We will have another chance of light snowfall tonight and then a warm-up is forecast later in the week with temperatures finally returning to above freezing levels.

A compact system dumped a quick inch or two of snowfall over eastern Iowa on Monday evening and into early Tuesday morning. The featured map analysis of available NWS and CoCoRaHS reports shows the largest snowfall totals around two inches found from Cedar Rapids to Davenport. These maps attempt to only show areas that received measurable snowfall, so trace amounts of snowfall are not included. Temperatures are still forecast to nicely warm later this week and any of the meager recently accumulated snowfall over the state will soon be gone.