8:45am: A mixture of sleet and rain has been falling and actually increasing across Iowa this morning. Freezing rain will likely increase in coverage across northwest Iowa where rates could reach as high as 0.10"/3-hr. Warm air is moving in just above the surface, however, temperatures at the surface remain close to freezing causing the mixed precipitation.
Things are quiet for the moment but clouds will continue to increase through the morning and afternoon. Southeast winds will increase ahead of a warm front that will lift through the Plains today. As this warm front moves closer a brief period of a light mix of rain/sleet/freezing rain may occur before temperatures warm enough to support all rain this evening and tonight. The leading edge of the precipitation is just southwest of the Quad Cities where a little sleet has been reported near Muscatine, IA.
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