IEM Daily Bulletin for Jan 8 2026
daryl herzmann
Iowa Environmental Mesonet Daily Bulletin for 08 January 2026
News
No news is good newsIEM Code Pushes <repo,branch> on Github
| Timestamp | Repository | Message | Link |
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| Jan 7 8:54 AM | iem,main | 📝 Sundry fixes per review | Link |
| Jan 7 10:41 AM | iem,main | 🐛 Use rounding vs int (truncation) | Link |
| Jan 7 11:40 AM | iem,main | 🎨 Don't advertise meteogram for COOP sites | Link |
| Jan 7 2:23 PM | iem,main | ✨ Add GeoJSON service of NWS COOP Obs for a date https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/geojson/coopobs.py?help |
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| Jan 7 2:24 PM | iem,main | ✨ Add NWS COOP Daily Report Map https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/COOP/map/ |
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Daily Feature
Quite Warm Three Weeks
Date: 07 Jan 05:30 AM
Votes: Good: 10
Bad: 0 Abstain: 0
In some regards, the past three to four weeks have been frustrating for most Iowans seeing the very warm air temperature forecasts to not materialize due to persistent low clouds and fog, as was the case again on Tuesday with record high temperatures relegated just to our west. Even with the disappointment, average daily high temperatures still have been very seasonably mild over this period as shown by the featured map presenting unofficial IEM estimated climate district average temperature ranks. A value of one indicates the warmest on record since at least 1893. A vast sea of red / ones can be readily seen with Iowa straddling the edge of the warmest departures. The other end of this see-saw is Alaska and northwestern Canada, which unfortunately the IEM does not produce similar maps for, but has seen a bitterly cold temperatures over this same period. This pattern does look to shift some later in January, but it remains to be seen if significant periods of cold weather will happen any time soon.
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.NWS Watch/Warning Summary for 12 AM 7 Jan 2026 - 12 AM 8 Jan 2026 CST
| Summary | By WFO | Watches | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type | US | IA | ARX | DVN | DMX | OAX | FSD | US |
| Tornado | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Svr Tstorm | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Flash Flood | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | --- |
ARX = LaCrosse, WI DVN = Davenport, IA DMX = Des Moines, IA OAX = Omaha, NE FSD = Sioux Falls, SD
IEM Cow Report
No SVR+TOR Warnings Issued.