DES MOINES, Iowa -- Weather's going to start off cold for much of Iowa this week.
"Temperatures on Monday across much of the state are going to be in the middle 20's to low 30's. As we get to Wednesday, temperatures will be slowly rising--just a few degrees shy of freezing. By Friday, statewide upper 30's to maybe lower 40's over Southern Iowa" says National Weather Service Meteorologist Andrew Ansorge.
He says it's also going to be drier than normal all the way through the weekend.
"There's no major systems coming through. There might be something west of the Missouri River border Monday night into Tuesday, otherwise looking dry through the week" Ansorge says.
He says Iowa's long-range forecast through the week before Christmas brings a warmer-and-drier than normal trend.
"Just slightly above normal for temperatures, but we're not talking 60's like we saw last week across portions of the state. Precipitation-wise, overall we're trying to trend toward below normal" Ansorge says.
Much of Western, Central, and Eastern Iowa saw snow late Friday night through Saturday evening.
The heaviest snow was in Central and far Eastern Iowa. Dubuque got more than nine inches, Epworth saw eight, while Ames, Adel got seven inches.
Image from National Weather Service: Johnston, Iowa