Icy weather grips tri-state area ...

The overnight weather radar pictured above from Monday, February 19 into Tuesday, February 20 was pretty to look at in its color schemes but did not leave a very pretty result as it left behind anywhere from one-tenth to two-tenths of an inch of icy slush on area roadways in the tri-state area. The threat of that icy weather and its eventual realization forced a number of cancellations and schedule changes in the area, as well as throughout much of Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin, including school cancellations and delays both Monday and Tuesday, as well as the postponement of the Kee girls basketball regional championship game from Monday to Tuesday and the Allamakee Community School District Board meeting from Monday to Wednesday. Along with the forecasted ice and rain came a bit more surprising thunder and lightning that rumbled and flashed through northeast Iowa in the very early morning hours of Tuesday, February 20, with the National Weather Service precipitation observation indicating as much as a half-inch of total precipitation falling in the tri-state area from Monday, February 19 into early Tuesday, February 20.