COLORS ON THE RADAR PICTURE. THAT’S ALWAYS AN INDICATOR. WE’VE GOT A FEW DIFFERENT THINGS GOING ON. WE’VE GOT A FEW DIFFERENT TYPES OF TEMPERATURES OUT THERE. LET’S START FIRST HERE AROUND THE DES MOINES METRO. POLK COUNTY PRETTY MUCH FULL RIGHT NOW OF JUST RAIN SHOWERS OUTSIDE THIS EVENING. BASICALLY, THEY STRETCH EAST TO WEST RIGHT NOW, ROUGHLY ALONG THE I-80 CORRIDOR. NOW, AS YOU HEAD THROUGH SOUTHERN IOWA, LITTLE BIT OF A GAP DOWN TO THE SOUTH. PLACES LIKE OSCEOLA, LA MONA EAST TOWARDS SHERATON, OVER TOWARDS MOUNT AIR DRIVE FOR THE TIME BEING OUT AND SOUTHWESTERN IOWA. THIS IS WHERE WE’VE SEEN A COUPLE OF RUMBLES OF THUNDER AS WE’VE GONE THROUGH TONIGHT. SOUTHWEST WINTERSET, A COUPLE CELLS A LITTLE BIT MORE ROBUST SOUTHEAST OF GREENFIELD. THIS WOULD BE RIGHT AROUND ORIENT, I WOULD GUESS, HEADED NORTHEASTWARD. A FEW LIGHTNING BOLTS THERE, SHOWING UP, SENSED BY THE RADAR PICTURE. DOESN’T LOOK AS IMPRESSIVE. NOW, IOWA, BUT THIS IS STILL WHERE WE’RE SEEING SOME ICE BUILDUP FROM MOST LIKELY SOME FREEZING DRIZZLE, WHICH DOESN’T ALWAYS SHOW UP ON RADAR AS EASILY BECAUSE AS A REALLY SMALL DROPS THAT LITTLE BIT OF MOISTURE FALLING DOWN ON SOME COLD SURFACES OUTSIDE HERE THIS EVENING. BIG SYSTEM STILL CENTERED OFF TO OUR SOUTH AND WEST. MOISTURE FLOWING UP FROM THE SOUTH UP OVER THIS WARM FRONT. SO IT’S ALL LIQUID AND THEN IT FALLS ON TO THIS COLD GROUND THAT WE’VE GOT UP IN NORTHERN IOWA HERE THIS EVENING. BUT AT LEAST WE’RE NOT UP IN SOUTH DAKOTA, NEBRASKA AND MINNESOTA, WHERE ALREADY SEVERAL INCHES OF SNOW HAS FALLEN. AND THEY’RE GOING TO GET EVEN MORE TONIGHT AND INTO TOMORROW. NOW, AS WE HEAD THROUGH TONIGHT AND INTO TOMORROW, THAT LOW PRESSURE CENTER APPROACHES US. EVENTUALLY, IT BRINGS US WARMER AIR THAT’LL SHUT OFF THE THREAT INITIALLY. TOMORROW, AND THEN WE’LL GET THE COLDER AIR BACK. AND THIS TIME IT’LL BE ALL SNOW. THEN SPORADIC SNOW SHOWERS THROUGH THE DAY, PARTS OF TOMORROW AND INTO EVEN ON WEDNESDAY AS WELL. SINCE THAT SYSTEM IS GOING TO KIND OF SLOWLY MEANDER OR OVER A REGION. SO LET’S GO HOUR BY HOUR HERE LOCALLY TONIGHT. STILL A FEW MORE RAIN SHOWERS, RUMBLES OF THUNDER, MAYBE SOME DECENT RAINFALL ACCUMULATIONS SEVERAL TENTHS OF AN INCH. CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN IOWA, NORTHERN IOWA, YOU STILL GET THAT LITTLE BIT OF LIGHT DRIZZLE COATING THE GROUND WITH THAT ICE INTO EARLY TOMORROW MORNING, KIND OF SLOWLY TAPES OFF THEN AS WE HEAD INTO EARLY TOMORROW. GOOD NEWS IS A LOT OF SCHOOLS ALREADY DELAYED, A LOT OF SCHOOLS STILL NOT BACK AFTER WINTER BREAK. SO HOPEFULLY WE WON’T HAVE TO HAVE AS MANY CONCERNS ABOUT DRIVING UP IN THE NORTHERN PORTION OF THE STATE TOMORROW. PEOPLE WILL JUST STAY HOME POSSIBLY. THEN, AS WE HEAD THROUGH THE DAY TOMORROW, WE’LL SHOULD WARM UP ENOUGH THAT WE SHOULD END THE ICE, MAYBE MELT A LITTLE BIT OF THAT ICE BEFORE WE GET SOME SNOWFLAKES ON TOP OF IT. HAD A REPORT NEAR FORT DODGE, A LITTLE TOWN OF BADGER TO THE NORTH OF FORT DODGE THERE OF A 10TH OF AN INCH OF ICE. SO FAR DOESN’T LOOK AS LIKELY. NOW WE’RE GOING TO GET TO SOME OF THOSE HALF INCH TOTALS, BUT WE DON’T NEED TO HAVE PROBLEMS. OBVIOUSLY, STILL 2/10 OF AN INCH OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. STILL CAUSE SOME ISSUES. ALREADY HAD SOME POWER ISSUES IN PARTS OF CALHOUN AND SAC COUNTY, AT LEAST TEMPORARILY. EARLIER THIS EVENING, BECAUSE A LITTLE BIT OF THAT ICE AND SOME OF THIS BREEZE, THERE’S IT’S STILL GOING TO BE AROUND TONIGHT NORTHEASTERLY WINDS OCCASIONALLY GUSTING ABOVE 30 MILES PER HOUR. TREE LIMBS, POWER LINES OF DOWNED POWER LINES LIKE THAT VERY MUCH. NOW, AS WE HEAD THROUGH TOMORROW MORNING, TEMPERATURES GO BACK ABOVE FREEZING THROUGH THE MORNING TIME FRAME. IN FACT, SOUTHEAST IOWA, YOU MIGHT MAKE A RUN AT 50 TOMORROW AND THEN THE COLD AIR SPILLS BACK IN ON THE BACK WILL COOL THROUGH TOMORROW AFTERNOON AND ANY LEFTOVER PRECIPITATION WILL PROBABLY BE A LITTLE BIT OF A RAIN SNOW MIX INTO THE SECOND HALF OF YOUR TUESDAY. AND THEN PROBABLY, LIKE I MENTIONED, A FEW OF THOSE LINGERING SNOW SHOWERS INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS OF TUESDAY AND INTO MAYBE WEDNESDAY AS WELL. SO SNOWFALL ACCUMULATION MIGHT EXTEND DOWN TO THE DES MOINES METRO. I THINK THAT WILL PROBABLY BE DURING THE DAY WEDNESDAY. NOT MUCH, THOUGH. MAYBE A LITTLE BIT OF WHITE THERE, HERE AND THERE. NORTHWESTERN IOWA COULD SEE SEVERAL INCHES, THOUGH. THE REAL HEAVY STUFF IS GOING TO BE UP INTO THE DAKOTAS AND INTO MINNESOTA ONCE WE PUSH THE SYSTEM BY HERE, TRYING O LINGER AROUND INTO WEDNESDAY WITH A FEW FLAKES SHOULD BE DRY. THEN FOR THE REST OF THE WORKWEEK HERE, THIRTIES THURSDAY, FRIDAY, AND THEN AS WE HEAD TOWARDS THE WEEKEND, WILL FALL A LITTLE BIT BACK TO AROUND FREEZING, WHICH IS STANDARD JANUAR