OttumwaSnomow

.55 overnight. Just a absurd wet pattern. Not complaining

Looking over the over 300 cocorahs locations across Iowa mby has 3rd most precip in 2024! And even more shocking given how far SE I am, I recorded the 2nd most snowfall in Iowa! Only Coralville eeked out a inch more snow. No doubt about after December 2023 this area a magnet for precip! Doesn't really surprise me though. In 2017 I spent a couple days researching and Ottumwa Iowa Kirksville Mo have the wildest swings and deviations from averages in the midwest! Bermuda triangle here of crazy ups and downs in precip. The past 13 months totally bear this out. Yes all location flucuate but the swings here historically are mind blowing!

What a day! What a past 33 days! Today 3.10" (ambient) Since March 31st over 11 inches! Since Dec 1st over 20 inches. Pond now inches from overflowing, first time since late 2020! Some minor flooding today first time in years! SW wapello county had a report of 6.5" just today! Todays drought monitor still had mby in "abnormally dry" which will be gone next week. Its honestly as wet now as I have seen since maybe sept 2020. Looking at May forecast a 2010 deluge isnt out of the question. Snodgrass referred to 2010 as a analog year? Seeing so many unusual things not seen for years! Like my basement leaking!

I had a davis pro for years. Gave it to my son when I sold him that property. The solar charger quit and I was constantly putting batteries in. I love the ambient console and easy access of the data. Its been out since nov 2012 with zero issues. And its quite far from the house

Im at 7.93" here for April. I have 3 gages: coop observer large metal gage, a cocorahs gage and my Ambient electronic one. The coop observer and cocorahs are usually identical.. The coop observer maybe a tic higher less, maybe 0.5% than the cocorahs at times. The ambient is steadily 4 to 6% higher, so i dont document it. But its midnight to midnight and saves me a trip out in the rain! The ambient is very reliable, except for dead of winter ice or snow. But perhaps most confusing is OTM 7 miles nw of me is measured at midnight and i measure 7 am. On March 31st just before midnight we had a torrential downpour, which went into my April data. Had that went on March data March would've been closer to normal precip. But I continue to see this oddity that My 2 locations in Wapello county steadily see much more precip than OTM, and 2 other friends not far from OTM. I've come to strongly believe that info isn't accurate! When I have 3 rain gages over years? Why is OTM constantly 10 to 20% less? Possibly even more in winter when precip needs melted.?????? Oh and fyi my ambient says 6.98" since April 1st at midnight.

Well what a event! The 4 day, 2 system total is 2.62" nothing extreme. But I had my wettest 24 hr period in 3 yrs. And most amazing I have 7.93" in April and still another chance Tuesday evening. My wettest month in Iowa since Sept 2020.. Kiss goodbye to darn drought monitor!

Another wet day! Love it! .80" this pm and still raining. Weekend total now 1.7" and incredibly now at 7 inches in April! And there hasnt been a extreme amount of run off or gully washers. Soaking in and saturated! KDMX - Super-Res Reflectivity 1, 6_50 PM.mp4

Is east edge of Desmoines getting raked? Hope not.

.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.