A blast of Winter Weather is heading towards Iowa late tonight into Tuesday. The National Weather Service in Des Moines says (as of 9am Monday):
Snow before 3am, then rain, possibly mixed with snow. Low around 32. Chance of precipitation is 100%...
My wife Holly woke me up Monday morning not to wish me a happy 18th wedding anniversary but instead told me to turn on the TV. It was not the start to a day off that I could have fathomed.
A proposed schedule change for the Cedar Rapids school district that would have seen students have a late start every Monday morning, has been shelved for now.