Road Conditions: Iowa DOT Reports Ice Storm Affecting Travel

If you can avoid it, you'd be better off staying off the roads today.

An ice storm is blowing through the region, and there is a freezing rain advisory until 6 p.m.

"North central and east central Iowa are currently experiencing the brunt of the ice storm," the Iowa Department of Transportation said.

Travel is also very slow between Algona and Spencer on U.S. 18 as the precipitation lingers along the Iowa-Minnesota border. Pavement and air temperatures remain at or below the freezing level in these regions.   

The overall storm front is moving north and east as it pushes out of Iowa and into Minnesota and Wisconsin. Little or no precipitation is falling in the far western and southwestern parts of the state. 

Follow this link to see road conditions throughout Iowa.

A commenter on the Marion Facebook page said main roads aren't too bad, but side streets are "bad to badish."

Linn County Sheriff's have enacted a tow ban.

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