OttumwaSnomow

.91" wow and just the first round!

My dewpoint is 43 and nice moderate rain. And Im up to .43 rain this am. Unreal how Ive been the bullseye for months now.

We drove to the Royals Orioles game on Sunday (go O's!). And there was quite few dry areas between here and kc.. much wetter here thankfully. But looks like we all get in on it soon!

Most of my 30 fruit trees in full bloom. Currently its 41F at 1 pm. Dewpoint is 27F and both will plummet down tonight i think my fruit is gone!

It will be so nice to see my area off the dreaded drought monitor soon! I have a incredible 7 plus inches since March 1st. My ponds are almost full! Going back to Dec 1st 2023 I am steadily running surpluses. Except for the pultry .14 in Feb.

Well this system over preformed here for sure!! 3 rounds of thunder. Still thunder tonight. I have about .88 so far. 2 bouts of light hail. The 2nd round was squall line in my pics below did finally get some spin on it in eastern Wapello county. There was a eery sound that Ive only hear twice iny life... freight train.

Just not a good setup for my area for good rain in more than a couple spots. Maybe a strip or stripe under a super cell. Today i tilled the garden. Craziest hard crust i ever saw from the days of sun and wind. But still mud underneath!! Deep soil wetter here than further west. Bone dry over along hwy 35.

Looks like i will finish with 44.2" 38 of which fell in 11 days. A Crazy winter.

3.16" day total precip since Sunday afternoon. And a snow rain mix is still falling so will add to this. What a over performer! Very thankful!

I'm probably thought of as a complainer on these forums. And my company has lost millions from years of drought. But I must say this since Nov 1st mby is near the top of a Iowa locations. #2 snowfall 44.2" #6 precip 12.39" We should be falling off the drought monitor soon.

1.56" My heaviest rain only day since September 2022. Was pea sized hail twice. My pond jumped up 2 feet!

Great call @Tom! Nothing like a wobbling warm front here!!! I just got raked best gully washer since June or longer! 1.32" and still not over! 2 rounds of pea size hail! FINALLY SOME RUN OFF FOR PONDS! KDMX - Super-Res Reflectivity 1, 10_52 PM.mp4

Whats a thunderstorm? Im seeing just 2 to 4 per year in recent years!!!! That said today is the 1 year anniversary of one of strongest supercells of my life! It actually passed right over my 24 acres! Touched ground not even 2 miles away. The Hedrick Keota Iowa tornado and hail.

Go Os! Man is this team good!

Yes.. just this massive weird dry slot. But as soon as the cold front approaches the Mississippi river BOOM! line of solid precip. I have witnessed this so many times in recent years its uncanny. Thus much of Illinois has not been in the severe drought as SE iowa just 60 to 80 miles away! And looking at historical averages Illinois east of Mississippi river doesnt not receive more precip than SE Iowa. But in recent years they have!!!!

I have exactly a trace and a trace the past 3 days!!! ZERO.. after days of model data with a very good rain Friday thru tues. Pathetic. Never seen a dry slot like this in march that last 4 days!!! While rain repeatedly formed west and north and now east this pm.

I just reported a trace 2 days. What a bummer. I had watched this setup for 15 days. Seems like it takes some kinda freak event to get a big rain here. A wobbling front along the mo/ia border usually works. Oddest place, front after front system after system. Maybe 1 of 20 gives a precip even over .50! So many months pass here with 1 or none significant precip events. Its shocking to me that even being on the east side of a trough doesn't create lift and precip here.

Its complete opposite of climo in Iowa. SE Iowa by far wettest part of Iowa. Not this system. If fact ZERO precip wont surprise me.

I watch Eric daily. The AI EURO certainly saw the overall pattern development. But all the long range models stunk it up for my area into Missouri. Huge dryslot now clear on all models. Snodgrass explained that the east coast system cutting off the gulf flow because of nw flow behind the east coast sys.

Whats a gully washer? Never seen such a long period of time with almost zero heavy precip. Odd that my heaviest precip in months was 2.7" over a 120 hr period that was all snow! But never heavy snow. Just moderate for 66 hrs. I bet I haven't had 45 minutes of heavy rain since Sept 2022. Almost all ponds and many streams remain dry or extremely low. And thats with a fairly wet winter since dec 15th!

Its gonna take a 10 day period of 4 plus inches. Or better yet a month with 6, 7 or more inches. Unfortunately with each passing yr that seems like a utopia here. My last well above avg month of precip was Sept 2021. With a exception of Jan 2024 which was mostly snow. Runoff? Whats runoff?

2012 was horrible here in SE Iowa. I unofficially measured 30 days over 100! And around 70 days over 90! And many days over 105. I saw on a accurate shaded thermometer 111F! We literally had almost no rain June July Aug. A derecho rolled thru about June 20th 2012. Knocking 100s of 100 yr old trees down. It was our only significant rain. It was then I learned how torrid hot Iowa can be, cracked and dusty! Lack of precip now quite common but the heat was historic!

What a good system for parts of bone dry Iowa! This time a little further west in south central Iowa did better. But mby .94 is best event in 2024 with the exception of the 2 giant snows in mid January. Even some runoff!

I have recorded 1.0" since Jan 20th. In my 17 yrs in snow business here in SE Iowa. It was by far our worst February! After a shocking and most likely a record of 38" in 11 days, 34" of which fell in 4 days!

About exactly same here. Not as much as we hoped for. But my biggest system since late January.