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The storm system may impact southeast Iowa Monday into Tuesday, possibly bringing minor winter travel impacts.

Those celebrating in Iowa should expect rain, wind and temperatures in the high 50s, thanks to the El Niño effect.

Iowa has more than tripled the number of acres of corn left standing to protect roadways from blowing snow since 2016, but the Iowa Department of Transportation is looking for more farmers to boost the program.

Even when it’s 100 degrees out, some Cedar Rapids employees are thinking about winter. Snow plow inspections and maintenance started in the city at the end of August. That coincided with an invitation to Cedar Rapids schools and community groups to decorate the plows with paint.

Flakes fell in Cedar Rapids on Aug. 4, 1924, in Iowa City on Aug. 12. But it was probably really hail, modern forecasters say.

Winds will continue to increase while temperatures decrease in the next 24 hours.

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.

All of Iowa was put under a winter storm watch Monday afternoon, although estimates of snowfall between Wednesday and Friday remained uncertain -- but with strong winds, forecasters nonetheless were predicting blizzard conditions are possible.

New research could help guide Iowa snow plow drivers during white-out conditions and alert them to obstacles, improving driver safety and keeping roads open in low-visibility conditions.

Cedar Rapids, along with most of Eastern Iowa,could see two to three inches of snow by Thursday evening, according to predictions from the National Weather Service’s Des Moines office.

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.