***iowa Weather Update*** == Scattered Snow Snowstorms Jan. 3

[SJohnsson]

Des Moines- Scattered Snow Showers
http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/tenday/USIA0231?from=36hr_topnav_business

Liberty is brewing my friends... can it be the perfect storm?

Other Metros:

Ames - Scattered Snow Showers
http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/tenday/USIA0026?from=36hr_topnav_business

Cedar Rapids- Scattered Snow Showers
http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/tenday/USIA0026?from=36hr_topnav_business

Iowa City- Scattered Snow Showers
http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/tenday/USIA0414?from=search_10day

Dubuque- Partly Cloudy
http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/tenday/USIA0248?from=search_10day

Davenport- Partly Cloudy
http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/tenday/USIA0211?from=search_10day

[gpickett00]

Thats awesome! link?

[goRPaul]

Tell me again, do we want a lot of snow on caucus day, or none? I suppose RP supporters will be more likely to brave the elements...

[literatim]

The scent of victory is in the air. :)

[derdy]

I knew it!! There will be heavy snow with 90% chance of victory!!

[quantized]

Let it snow!! :p

[SJohnsson]

Tell me again, do we want a lot of snow on caucus day, or none? I suppose RP supporters will be more likely to brave the elements...

The common consensus is that we have supporters much more likely to brave the elements... so the more snow, ice, blinding cold wind...the better

[SJohnsson]

snow "showers" is diff, then storms i believe, sorry im in az.

I'll take what i can get, anything that ices up the roads to some degree will help us out

[gpickett00]

yeah, storms are big, they arent scattered. Any kind of unfavorable weather is great for us though!

[unconsious767]

Screw 'snow showers', I want 2 feet !

[quickmike]

Theres something you non-midwestern people need to know about the weather here. The forecast chancges every couple of days and they are rarely right this far in advance.

They have a saying here: "If you dont like the weather in Illinois/Iowa, dont worry, it will change tomorrow."

I hope it snows massive amounts on the 3rd though. Thats always good for RP on primaries day.

[literatim]

It is still kind of early to predict weather. I am still hoping for a blizzard. :D

[SJohnsson]

Theres something you non-midwestern people need to know about the weather here. The forecast chancges every couple of days and they are rarely right this far in advance.

They have a saying here: "If you dont like the weather in Illinois/Iowa, dont worry, it will change tomorrow."

I hope it snows massive amounts on the 3rd though. Thats always good for RP on primaries day.

All in good fun for now :D

[noztnac]

Scattered fascism followed by a downpour of freedom.

[european]

It is still kind of early to predict weather. I am still hoping for a blizzard. :D

lmao

[PledgeForPaul]

Screw 'snow showers', I want 2 feet !

Being a native Iowan for 25 years, the worst conditions come when the temperature is at or slightly above 32 degrees. The ice is what really stops people, not the snow (though the snow will stop a few).

As far as the 10 day out speculation game, the precipitation estimates are extremely inaccurate until about 24 hours ahead of time. The temperature estimate may provides some semblance of a good guess 3 or 4 days out... but I'm pretty skeptical of 10 day estimate. Weather.com shows the Cedar Rapids Jan 3rd high at 26 degrees... that number needs to increase for a perfect storm!

[Trassin]

Come on ice storms!

[Trigonx]

this is if the temp is at or slightly above 32 degrees F as PledgeForPaul has said.

the perfect situation:
rain/sleet in the morning and afternoon to freezing temps around 4/5 to create ice virtually everywhere discouraging ALOT of people to travel outside the safety of their home.

[nist7]

Oh the weather outside is frightful....but the Paul voters are delightful........and since we've no better candidate.........let Paul win, let Paul win, let Paul win.............

:D :D :D

[romeo2]

ice storms and blizzards? im rooting(get it lol) for hurricanes, tornados, a tsunami, flood, volcano, locusts, anything and everything

[aspiringconstitutionalist]

I've been thinking about this a lot, and now I'm not so sure. In Iowa, we might end up relying a lot on fresh, softcore voters that we pick up in the week and a half before the caucuses. This group of voters might actually be our biggest turnout in Iowa. Is it possible we actually want really nice weather so that all of our new first-timer voters that we're going to be snagging with the intense advertising/GOTV effort in this last week and a half bother to show up?

[Flirple]

What is everyone talking about? I looked at those links and it looks like Jan. 3rd is going to be clear skies and 30 degree weather for Iowa. Thats about as good as it gets this time of year.

[Paul.Bearer.of.Injustice]

Weather models are more inaccurate than a random guess at 168 hours out. The physics of the models lean heavily on climatology and statistics that far in advance. They are worthless.

It's going to be 65 degrees.

People will be picnicking in the parks and NOT INSIDE CAUCUSING :_)

[1913_to_2008]

Also, they could cancel the cuacas if there's too much snow. That would suck, RP comes in first so they have a justified "do over"