The solid line is what the station actually recorded over the last day; the dashed line is the forecast from here on. Where they meet is now.
The National Weather Service's NEXRAD radars stitched into one picture every five minutes, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet. Brighter colours are heavier rain or snow.
Model forecast (Open-Meteo), with the 1991–2020 normal for each date underneath, and the National Weather Service's own wording.
Every day the forecast is scored against what the station measured, and against two simple guesses it should beat: the normal for the date, and “same as before”.
Every few hours a meteorologist at the local National Weather Service office writes an Area Forecast Discussion: what the atmosphere is doing and how sure they are. This is the synopsis.
The last 30 days at the station's long-record climate site, against normal and against the hottest and coldest ever recorded on each date.
Latest observation at each station.