The Iowa Environmental Mesonet (IEM) collects environmental data from cooperating members with observing networks. The data are stored and made available on this website.
Blowing Dust
Posted: 07 Jun 2024 05:30 AM, Views: 1778
Strong winds, full sunshine quickly drying surfaces, and recently tilled agricultural fields combined to create significant blowing dust over much of northern Iowa on Thursday. The featured webcam shot is from an Iowa DOT RWIS webcam near Plainfield (north of Waterloo) and nicely illustrates the driving dangerous associated with blowing dust. Namely, the rapid change from excellent horizontal visibility to something approaching near zero. Even with all of the recent rains, full June sunshine and low humidity can quickly dry an exposed soil surface and away it blows.
Previous Years' Features
5 June NWS Data Outage [resolved]
Posted: 5 Jun 2:20 PM
2010-2015 TAF Archive Fix
Posted: 22 May 10:29 AM
16 April NWS Data Outage [resolved]
Posted: 16 Apr 8:53 AM
15 April NWS Website Outage [resolved]
Posted: 15 Apr 9:54 PM
15 April GOES Outage [resolved]
Posted: 15 Apr 10:52 AM
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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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