IEM Daily Bulletin

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Iowa Environmental Mesonet Daily Bulletin
Data valid for 10 April 2008

> News
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 | Title : iemchat Internet disruption
 | Date  : 10 Apr 01:49 PM
 | Author: Daryl Herzmann
 | URL   : https://iemchat.com
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Internet connectivity to iemchat is currently down.  No ETA
to return of service at this time, sorry :(
3:30 PM CDT: Internet Service Restored

> Yesterday's Daily Feature

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http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/onsite/features/cat.php?day=2008-04-10
 | Title : Stuck in the middle is good
 | Date  : 10 Apr 07:03 AM
 | Votes : Good: 29   Bad: 11
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The featured image is of current NWS issued watches and warnings showing most of the middle US experiencing high impact weather.  Blizzard warnings are in effect to our Northwest while flood, severe thunderstorm, and tornado warnings are in effect to our south.  This is all thanks to a large storm system that will sweep thru today with the center expected to go right over Iowa.  This is actually a good thing for us, as it will keep most of the bad winter weather to our north and summer weather to our south.  The bad news is that our chances of snow will increase as this system passes to our east.

> NWS Watch/Warning Summary
*** Products issued on 10 Apr 2008

             Summary +_________ By WFO ____________+  Watches 
Type         US   IA | ARX   DVN   DMX   OAX   FSD |  US 
Tornado      49    8 |   0     6     7     0     0 |   8
Svr Tstorm  166    2 |   0     1     5     0     0 |   2
Fl Flood      0    0 |   0     0     0     0     0 | N/A

ARX = LaCrosse, WI  DVN = Davenport, IA    DMX = Des Moines, IA 
OAX = Omaha, NE     FSD = Sioux Falls, SD