Full-blown winter appears here to stay with another round of snow impacting Iowa on Monday into Tuesday. Totals from this event were much lighter with just an inch or two most commonly reported over southern and southeastern Iowa. As a reminder, the IEM generates these maps for snowfall events that have at least an arbitrarily chosen two inch or greater report and/or significant travel impacts. You can find previous event maps for this year and previous years by following the "winter2526" tag associated with this feature message. The next snowfall event arrives this evening, but totals are again expected to be on the light. A bit of quieter weather arrives for the remainder of the week.

The snowfall from this past weekend was quite intense for November. The featured chart presents top 10 daily snowfall totals for Des Moines during the month of November. There are caveats galore with such a listing including difficulties of snowfall measurement, varying periods of record, and most importantly: snowfall events are typically long duration and often cross arbitrary 24 hour boundaries more so than heavy rainfall events. All those caveats aside, the total from Saturday at 8.9" comes in third place for the month of November. This was also the case for Waterloo, with its 9.3" coming in third place as well.