Stormy

Actually thought rain amounts would be more uniform across my community but 2 of my siblings around 6 miles to my southeast got nearly 2".

You folks take Dewey to serious. Knowing him, I think he was making fun of Ice again with sarcasm. Sorry if I'm jumping to conclusions.

I ended up with a nice soaking rainfall total of 1.10". Mainly just light to moderate rates and no thunder. Hoping for more this week as it was very dry! Rain began around 5:00pm yesterday and ended after midnight today.

I'm feeling the opposite, but I'm also a little further south. I'm riding the edge with the HRRR and had noticed the RRFS is about the only one that misses here, but I'm not sure how accurate that model is. Sometimes it seems way off. I like the WPC for here as well. Let's hope the driest areas get the most, but it's often doesn't work out that way.

Yes it looked like a mini hurricane spinning like a top on radar! https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/nexrad/?parms=https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/nexrad/?parms=DVN-N0B-0-200-100-usa-rad

I like this day three excessive rainfall outlook from the WPC.

The drought has worsened to the severe category again in my area after being in the moderate rating for a few weeks. Was rated severe earlier in July also. About all the models are showing a band of heavy rain cross southern Iowa/northern Missouri tonight. I might get the northern edge. I wish it would be further north.

I totally agree with the first paragraph, and the second paragraph I don't know or understand enough about to share my thoughts.

But it seemed like earlier this summer and spring they had been in one of the driest areas, so things are averaging out somewhat. We need to get a dryer corridor from nw. to se. Iowa etc filled in too yet. Actually much of Iowa is well below normal in the last 30 days and longer.

Just spoke with my sister who lives north of Grand Island, and they also got over 1". And they now had around, or over 4" just since last Saturday!

July total rainfall here was 3.48" (-1.02") with most of it falling on the 12th. My yearly precipitation to the end of July is approximately 6.28" below my own 30 year (1990- 2019) average. I should probably go by my most recent 30 years of data as recent summers were dryer, which would change anomalies a little, but I don't have the numbers yet. Low temperature for the month was a cool 51° and the high a scorching 98°!

Not me! I mostly love summers, and this one was very pleasant for the most part so far. The main problem I don't like is there are lengthy dry spells in recent summers including right now. I like fall and spring, but wish I could skip winter. Lol But if there wouldn't be winter here we'd know something is screwed up and seriously wrong, which we don't want either.

Same here. Was through there twice with the last time 25+ years ago.

That's exactly the amount of rain I ended up with in about the same amount as time, minus the hail. The lightning here was similar. Rainfall rates were a little underwhelming here and didn't even quite hit 3" as the storm was in a weakening phase, but still decent with winds around 40mph. The main gust front blew in over 1 hr. prior, blowing lots of dust around. So thankful for this much rain! The heaviest storms basically developed due south from just west of Cedar Rapids to just west of me, where more rain fell.

Well storms have really blown up recently and the anvils actually made it all the way down here already. And it seems the storms are beginning to move southeast so hopefully it'll reach down to my area. A supercell near @james1976 place had been tornado warned earlier. If you're in Iowa did you experience a good storm?

Currently it's 96⁰ with a dew of 83⁰ right beside a cornfield. It would be ridiculous with all of this heat and humidity, (models basically are showing most of the storms staying ne. and sw. of my area tonight and the NWS lowered rain chances to only 30%) and we don't get widespread storms! Ugh if that pans out!

Yes precipitation amounts are very spotty which the drought monitor cannot show.

An outflow moved in from the east early this morning from the storms along the east of the Mississippi. So it doesn't feel quite as bad currently.

Yeah it's been like a sauna the last few days here as well, with maximum dews in the low 80⁰s and peak heat indexes around 120⁰ on my weather station, which is only a few feet from a cornfield! But clouds luckily moved in yesterday afternoon which really helped. Average high temps here are around 10° cooler than yours, and you're not really way above normal if around 100⁰ for highs, but yeah that's took hot though! Looks like Texas may bake and dry out more for awhile yet. Sorry for the bad news!

I agree it's ridiculous, and the Cedar Rapids area was especially dry this month. And a large chunk of Iowa largely missed out in the last few weeks with beneficial rains practically all around our state. But Iowa still doesn't look quite as bad on the drought monitor (see Clinton's post above) as states to the north, west, and south.

They'll doing pretty good locally because of the 2"+ rain just over 2 weeks ago. Less than 1 mi. south got around 2.60" and a few miles to the sw. around 2.80" back then, though there was some runoff due to high rainfall rates. If we wouldn't have gotten that rain I think my brother's crops would be pretty much toast! But it's been pretty much bone dry since then and we really need rain! Lawns had greened up, but never really grew and are starting to turn brown again.

I'm still holding out hope that we'll see a ridge riding storm complex or two later this week.

And check out what Kamala said, probably inadvertently, but I have long known that's on the Democrats and the WEF's agenda.

And Mike Pence just shot himself in the foot and is done as well after what he said here in Iowa. You can tell he's totally ticked off! What a loser.

DeSantis is pretty much done. He's already laid off some of his staffers because some of his donors are drying up because his poll numbers don't look good at all. Current polling shows he won't even win his own state! Some are expecting him to drop out as soon as a couple months and probably by the end of the year. Ramaswamy is almost doing better among Republicans than DeSantis or at least catching up, and he seems like a nice guy and says the right things, but don't have too much history on him so I don't know how he is. He could be a pretend MAGA like DeSantis was.