A very light and spotty freezing drizzle moved over Iowa during early Saturday morning, and light snow moved across the north. Below are reported snow totals thru the afternoon:

We were also treated to a blustery day, with winds gusting over 30mph in places. As colder air moved in on these winds, our high was set around 1 p.m. in Des Moines (as seen below). Your weather timeline takes you into Monday:

It’ll be a chilly night under partly cloudy skies across Iowa. We’ll experience single digit lows in the north.

We have three rounds of snow coming in our 7-day forecast as things stand Saturday. The first will come Monday evening into early Tuesday morning. This will drop amounts of 0.25″ to 1″ over most areas. Isolated higher amounts are possible in the north.

Our snowfall will be accompanied by breezy conditions. Wind chills will fall into the teens below zero on Tuesday morning:

The week’s second round of snow looks to fall from early morning Wednesday into early morning Thursday:

The European computer model’s ensemble forecast is below. You can see vertical columns of snowfall agreement among the ensemble members demonstrating our three snow chances through Saturday night. We may also see more snow midweek the following week.

Below is the ensemble mean snowfall forecast through next Sunday morning. Don’t treat this as gospel, but it does appear that we’ll begin eating into our snowfall deficit.

Highs for the next six days are followed by extended forecasts reinforcing our feeling that most of February will be colder than average, and our feeling that we’ll be seeing more snow chances this month.

Your WHO 13 7-day forecasts. Have a great weekend!