Iowa’s lack of severe weather likely to continue

State Climatologist Justin Glisan says a tornado outbreak is unlikely this month because Iowa is in a severe weather drought. “When you don’t have thunderstorms to drive rainfall, you don’t get a lot of severe weather and you get into pervasive drought,” Glisan says. So far this year in Iowa there have been 63 confirmed […]

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Char Beekmann, 88, Pocathotas

Char Beekmann, age 88, of Pocahontas, passed away on Thursday, November 5, 2026, at the Pocahontas Community Hospital in Pocahontas, Iowa.

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