Weather Update
It’s time to put my amateur meteorologist hat on*!
Hurricane Ian is dictating everything right now. As the storm makes a second landfall on the continental United States as a hurricane then spins north (ugh...go away, Ian), a wall has formed so the normal west-to-east flow of weather across the country is blocked, possibly into early next week. A high pressure ridge is stuck in the central part of the country, while a cold front is also stuck behind it near the Idaho-Montana border. That will lead to late monsoon rain in the intermountain west (and some possible snow on the big peaks in central and western Colorado) while Iowa will stay dry.