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WEATHER SUMMARY FOR EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
410 AM CST THU MAR 17 2005

A STIFF SOUTH WIND AND MILD TEMPERATURES ARE SET FOR NEBRASKA...IOWA 
AND POINTS TO THE SOUTH TODAY. COOLER TEMPERATURES AND MODERATE 
WINDS WILL PREVAIL TO THE NORTH.

A FRONT LAY NEARLY STATIONARY ON A LINE FROM THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE 
ALONG INTERSTATE 80 THROUGH OMAHA AND ACROSS SOUTHERN IOWA. IT IS 
FORECAST TO SLIDE NORTH ABOUT 100 MILES TODAY AS LOW PRESSURE 
DEVELOPS OVER MONTANA AND WYOMING. THE LOW WILL SLIDE INTO WESTERN 
NEBRASKA BY EVENING.

THE DEVELOPING LOW WILL YIELD INCREASING SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST WINDS 
FROM TEXAS TO NEBRASKA AND IOWA TODAY. GUSTS ARE FORECAST TO 
APPROACH 35 MPH ACROSS SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA.

INCREASINGLY DENSE HIGH CLOUDS WILL FILTER THE SUN...BUT 
TEMPERATURES WILL APPROACH 60 ACROSS A GOOD SHARE OF NEBRASKA AND 
IOWA THIS AFTERNOON. 

THE LOW IS PREDICTED TO TRACK EAST THROUGH NEBRASKA TONIGHT AND 
SPREAD SNOW FROM SOUTH DAKOTA ACROSS SOUTHERN MINNESOTA INTO 
WISCONSIN. SCATTERED LIGHT SHOWERS ARE POSSIBLE IN NEBRASKA AND IOWA 
TONIGHT INTO FRIDAY. SNOW AND THE MORE SUBSTANTIAL PRECIPITATION 
WILL STAY NORTH OF NEBRASKA AND IOWA.

THICK CLOUDS WILL KEEP THE SUN AWAY MOST OF FRIDAY. TEMPERATURES ARE 
SLATED TO TOP OUT IN THE 50S IN KANSAS...SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA AND 
SOUTHERN IOWA. READINGS WILL STRUGGLE TO TOP 40 IN NORTHERN 
NEBRASKA...AND SOUTH DAKOTA WILL LIKELY STAY BELOW FREEZING.


&&

HIGH LEVEL CLOUD COVER WAS ON THE INCREASE FROM WEST TO EAST ACROSS 
NEBRASKA THIS MORNING. THE CLOUDS SHOULD REACH INTO IOWA SHORTLY 
AFTER DAWN. TEMPERATURES STOOD IN THE 30S SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 
80...AND THEY HAD FALLEN INTO THE 20S TO THE NORTH. A SOUTH WIND 
AVERAGED 10 TO 20 MPH SOUTH OF THE INTERSTATE...WHILE A EAST WIND OF 
5 TO 10 MPH WAS OBSERVED TO THE NORTH.

$$

SCHURR