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The winter storm that won't go away
Iowa officials warn that travel remains hazardous as snow from a surprising snowstorm continues to fall.
Travelers are urged to check road conditions by visiting http://www.511ia.org, calling 511 in Iowa or 800-288-1047 nationwide. No weather-related road closures have been reported so far Wednesday.
The storm has dropped more than 9 inches of snow on some areas of Iowa and has perplexed forecasters.
National Weather Service meteorologist Jeff Johnson told the Des Moines Register that the storm moved 100 miles off its expected course and loosed a blanket of heavy snow instead of merely dusting central, eastern and southern portions of Iowa on Tuesday.
Johnson says he can provide long meteorological explanations about the storm's behavior, "but basically it didn't do what we expected it to do."
Jeremy Timmerman begins work on an owl made of snow completing an elephant Tuesday Feb. 26, 2013 in Burlington, Iowa. It took Timmerman about two hours to make his first creation. The Burlington area saw about 4-5 inches of snow accumulation during Tuesday's storm. (AP Photo/The Hawk Eye, Brenna Norman)
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