Most of Iowa is seeing unseasonably high temperatures this week in the 50, 60s and near 70, quite rare for November, but it won’t last. Kelsey Angle, the warning coordination meteorologist at the National Weather Service, says it’s wise to brush up on winter driving skills, prepare emergency kits, and assemble ice scrapers and snow shovels.
There are some predictions of a much colder, snowier winter ahead for the Midwest but Angle says the weather service’s long-range forecast isn’t so gloomy.
Most flowers and foliage across Iowa are still flourishing as there hasn’t yet been a widespread killing frost, but one day soon, the snowflakes will fly.
This is the warmest autumn on record in Iowa, with an average temperature around 65 degrees, while this is the state’s second-warmest year on record, to date.
