The National Weather Service placed the Corridor on a winter storm warning between 6 p.m. Wednesday until 6 a.m. Saturday in advance of a major winter storm bringing high winds and, with them, a bitter wind chill of some 30 to 40 degrees below zero.
“Not all derechos are created equal,” said Rich Kinney, a warning coordination meteorologist for the National Weather Service’s Quad Cities bureau.
First District Rep. Ashley Hinson and 3rd District Rep. Cindy Axne are asking the National Weather Service to explain a communications system malfunction that led to delay in critical alerts to the public March 5 when storms caused seven deaths in Iowa. Some warnings didn’t reach the public until nine minutes after they were issued.
The risk of spring flooding on the Mississippi River, as well as its tributaries, including the Cedar and Iowa rivers, is below normal, the National Weather Service reported Thursday.
Forecasters are predicting that a winter storm could dump nearly a foot of snow in parts of Iowa, though the heaviest snowfall is predicted to fall west of Cedar Rapids and Iowa City.
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