Storm spotters provide critical information to meteorologists about how storms develop and progress through communities across Iowa. Author: Brandon Lawrence Updated: 11:50 AM CST February 26, 2021
DES MOINES, Iowa
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As a spring-like pattern begins to take shape across Iowa over the next 10 days, it s a good reminder that the state s severe weather season is not far off.
This may be hard to imagine, especially as it seems like Iowa just began to thaw out from both a snowy winter and an early-February deep freeze.
Severe weather season brings a variety of hazards to the region, including the risk for large hail, damaging wind gusts, tornadoes and even flash flooding.
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Iowa has entered its second week, with new records set and a power supplier for a broad swath of northern Iowa counties resorting to rolling blackouts to maintain minimum power reserves.
MidAmerican Energy, which serves most of the Des Moines metro, Waterloo, Iowa City and the Quad Cities, and Alliant Energy, power provider for Cedar Rapids and many other Iowa cities, were unaffected by the blackouts. But MidAmerican on Monday afternoon asked customers to conserve natural gas as extreme weather conditions are impacting supplies around the country.