Both winter storms this week presented significant snowfall measurement challenges. The first was a blizzard with extremely strong winds, so finding an undistributed location to measure a depth was impossible. The storm on Friday mostly fell during the daylight hours and much of it melted as temperatures hovered near the freezing point. So the featured map is again a struggle to accurately represent the depth of snow that fell. The map generally shows a stripe of one to three inches falling from Davenport to the northwestern corner of the state. The ice and snow we accumulated for the week will be melting quickly as warmer temperatures return to the state for the coming week. As an aside, a common Iowa weather folklore tale is that bad winter weather accompanies the Iowa High School Girl's state basketball tournament. That turned out to be the case this year!

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