Waterloo set a record for the day.
(Image from Iowa Environmental Mesonet. Image at link changes with each snowfall.)
UPDATE: Another map with better gradients from the National Weather Service.
The girls’ state basketball tournament was permanently moved a week earlier in 2008 — from the first full week of March to the last days of February — but Mother Nature appears to have compensated.
UPDATE 2: KCRG meteorologist Justin Gehrts writes in a blog post:
What’s stunning is that no data indicated that it would happen. In fact, Monday’s data showed that Waterloo had a decent shot at getting no snow whatsoever, and the highest computer forecast was for about a half-inch of snow there.
UPDATE 3: Got another inch after the flurries kept coming Wednesday. See new post.