On Monday, we saw storms roll across central and eastern Iowa, which rolled to the Indiana/Ohio border. Rain, hail, tornadoes, and high wind gusts were recorded after what NOAA classified as a derecho. Wind gusts of over 100 miles an hour were recorded near New Vienna in Dubuque County. Triple-digit wind gusts were also seen in Illinois as the storm rolled through.
This was the beginning of a cooldown that we are starting to feel in the Midwest. USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey talks about the next week or two being cooler and wetter than we had seen in the past few days and weeks.
This front has continued to push south and east but is expected to stall in the Gulf Coast states, bringing much-needed rain, accompanied by heavy storms.
Rippey says that until this heavy storm spun up on Monday, parts of the midwest had been in a bit of a bubble which included warm temps, but relief from more of the volatile shifts we had seen elsewhere.
Rippey says the next eight to fourteen days will include some temperature fluctuations and a little more precipitation.
