***Official 2025 Weather Thread***

I'm glad you asked, because I was curious too! My husband works in healthcare, so we always get ours, kids included. No flu (yet?) in our house, but we've been really careful about handwashing, not to mention I mask when teaching and our oldest masks at schools due to being immunocompromised. I do know that one of my husband's coworkers had the flu in December and felt pretty crummy despite getting a flu shot, but I don't think it knocked him out as long as some as some folks were saying here.
I only asked because I coach a volleyball team with 12 12-year olds and in the past 3ish weeks, 10 of them have been out sick. I've avoided it and I'm wondering if I have the shot to thank.
 
Back to weather, work just announced that we are closing at 2 PM today and classes will be virtual this afternoon. I'm relieved, because sometimes they move classes online without closing offices, which means we just end up stuck here.
*Not technically weather*

But where is this?
 
Back to weather, work just announced that we are closing at 2 PM today and classes will be virtual this afternoon. I'm relieved, because sometimes they move classes online without closing offices, which means we just end up stuck here.
I take evening classes in downtown DSM. Our instructor emailed earlier saying "the weather is supposed to move in around noon. I'll decide at 3PM what we will do tonight."

Welp, a lot of us work downtown. So, making that call at 3PM doesn't help us much.
 
Truth. The Influenza A going around is no joke.

I don't think I've been this sick at any point in my adult life.
Does anyone know if the A strain is what was planned for in last fall's vaccinations?
 
My kids school in central Iowa is getting out 2 hours early, but the weather apps I use keep showing a very, very small percentage chance for precipitation.
Percentage of Precipitation typically don't handle drizzle very well at all. Most PoPs are for larger hygrometeors like Rain/snow/sleet.

Also radar doesn't typically handle drizzle well either. Very shallow layer of moisture with very miniscule returns. Add that to the radar beam that slightly points up and it hardly shows up. In fact, my weather computers are set to tune out returns that low.
 
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Drove from half hour east of tama/Toledo starting at 1:30 to Ames and then up to clear lake. Roads were fine but the windshield kept icing over.
 
Do people still go to that? I don’t know anyone who does.
It seemed like a decent sized crowd. It’s nothing in comparison to the Farm Progress Show, definitely fewer vendors and more of the “startup” type companies. Stine, Wyffles and Hogemeyer were about the three recognizable seed companies I saw there.