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I got a decent 0.46" this morning. One good shower dropped most of it.
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The models all had at least some scattered showers today that might add up to a tenth or two, but zero rain ever developed. The plume of good rain to the east/southeast stole all the moisture.
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Hopefully, the weather will cooperate. It's not necessarily the best time of year for that. Traveling to see an eclipse doesn't really interest me, but it's nice to see other people get excited. I saw there will be an eclipse in 2028 in Australia and Sydney will be exactly in the middle of the totality path. That's pretty good luck.
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The 5.9" of snow we got a few days ago is completely gone this morning.
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0.01" of rain here so far. Maybe we can squeeze out a few tenths later..
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Models had been showing a continuation of the storm train into April, with at least two more strong troughs ejecting out of the west. That is all fading fast as the models are, instead, turning the flow to the northwest.
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It snowed for three hours, so we got 2"/hr rate avg.
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I finished with 5.9" on the west side of Cedar Rapids. My liquid total is a much-needed 0.74". The very max part of the band dropped close to 7" just a hair north of me, but I am super thrilled with what I got.
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7" now being reported in Shellsburg, just nw of Cedar Rapids, and Tama, two counties west of CR. Major kudos to the models that shifted south to the hw30 corridor through CR.
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The snow is ripping pretty good here. The ground is completely covered. I'm guessing we might get a couple inches.
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There are some wildly different forecasts from the short-term models tonight. A couple show the heavy snow band through ne Iowa, with nothing in Cedar Rapids. A couple others show the heavy band through Cedar Rapids, with nothing in ne Iowa. The rest are in between.
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A few days ago the Euro/GFS were dropping 2-3+ inches of precip here. Now, the front is expected to stall much farther nw and the low will track along it, leaving southeast Iowa with much less rain. Every good system we end up hoping we can just squeeze a half inch out of it. We need inches of rain, but we can't get it.
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I sure would like to lock in the 12z op Euro. It is extremely active, with a lot of widespread rain and storms, with a very strong storm beginning to wrap up at day ten.
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I got an ok 0.45" of rain from this system. I'm looking forward to storm season so we can get some heavier rain.
I will have to cover a few budding shrubs early to mid next week.
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It's entirely possible Cedar Rapids gets very little rain from this system Wednesday night/Thursday. Pretty much all models show a wsw-ene swath through Iowa that gets jack squat. The storms should mostly miss southeast while the defo zone misses nw.
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I finished with a decent 0.53" of rain. I'll certainly take it.
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Most models continue to dry out the rain event for Nebraska and Iowa. A day or two ago, it had looked like widespread 1", but many are down to under a half inch. Southeast Nebraska may not get anything. It feels like the drought will never end.
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Only 0.02" here today, another bust.
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We did it! Cedar Rapids hit 80º today.
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The Total Solar Eclipse of April 8, 2024
in East of the Rockies
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The EPS and GEFS are not promising. Both are suggesting significant storminess across the central US around April 8th.