(KMAland) — Just after recent rains busted much of the drought in Iowa, Mother Nature has thrown extreme heat throughout KMAland to start the week.
Extreme heat warnings and heat advisories have been issued for the majority of southwest Iowa, southeast Nebraska, and northwest Missouri to start the week, with heat indices expected to reach triple digits on Monday and potentially continue into Tuesday. Clint Aegerter is a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Valley, Nebraska office. Aegerter tells KMA News that the extreme heat actually made its presence known in the latter part of the weekend on Sunday.
“(Sunday afternoon) we were sitting with heat indices right around 110 there in southwest Iowa, even a little bit higher in a few spots,” said Aegerter. “Temperatures were in the lower to mid-90s, and then the dew point, that’s what’s making it feel really humid out there and sticky–It was in the mid-70s to even lower 80s, to even probably some mid-80s in some parts of Iowa around corn fields and stuff like that.”…