This Week in Iowa City Weather: A Return to Rainy and Cold Weather

A strong storm is rippling its way through Northern Iowa this morning, but it looks at the moment like it will not venture far enough south to produce any significant rainfall for Iowa City this morning.

Don't expect to be so lucky for the rest of the week. Or perhaps even the rest of the day.

After a weekend featuring sunny and warm temperatures, we should see the return of the weather we've come to be used to this Spring so far: with chances for rain every day and temperatures dropping from highs in the seventies to highs in the forties.

And I just put my sweatshirts away. IOWA weather! (shakes fist)

Here's the Iowa City forecast from the National Weather Service in the Quad Cities with most of the heavy action forecasted to take place from today through Wednesday.

• Monday: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 3pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 75. South wind around 10 mph.
• Monday Night: A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 60. South wind around 10 mph.
• Tuesday A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 1pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 83. Breezy, with a south wind 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
• Tuesday Night A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 57.
• Wednesday A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 71.
• Wednesday Night Showers likely. Cloudy, with a low around 42. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

After that the forecast is for a good chance of rain for the rest of the week and highs in the mid forties to mid fifties.

The 10-day weather forecast for Iowa City from Weather Underground follows this same forecast, with a slightly less chance for rain this week. It also forecasts for temperatures to rebound again back into the sixties and seventies, but this will also come with a chance of rain next week on Monday through Wednesday.

And the cycle continues.