Hawkeye

We are still stuck at only 65 degrees.

The severe drought area from Ottumwa into northeast Missouri finally got some heavy rain. There were even some flash flood warnings from Kirksville eastward.

I picked up about 0.40" this morning, pushing my August total over 6 inches. It'd be nice to see some action later, but the thick clouds and cool temp are not going to help.

Yeah, the cells were tiny and, for once, hit my side of the city hardest. I actually doubled your total for once. This was my heaviest one-day rain event of the year.

The heavy rain has moved out of Madison, finally. There are several personal stations showing 9-13" in western Madison and just west of town.

One more cell moved over me late this evening, dumping another half inch and putting my final total at 2.35".

Personal stations just west of Madison are in the 6-10" range and radar is pretty bad.

In the last hour, a very tiny cell popped up and parked over me for a while, dumping another 0.60, boosting my total to 1.85". A personal station a half mile to my nw is up to 2.42". Meanwhile, the school station a mile southeast of me got nothing from this cell.

A thin band of orange on radar passed over me last hour, dumping very heavy rain. I picked up almost another half inch in only fifteen minutes, boosting my total to 1.26". This little band also had some lightning and thunder with it, something the earlier stuff did not, and something that we've had far too little of this summer.

7.45" in Omaha, now. Anyone know what the 24-hr record is?

6.83" at Eppley as of 10am. Radar suggest at least another inch is on the way. The deformation zone couldn't have been placed any better for Omaha/Council Bluffs. I also just noticed Eppley gusted to 59 mph at 5am. Wow, what a storm.

Eppley now up to 6.11" at 9am, still raining heavily. This station has reported rain or heavy rain for twelve consecutive hours.

I was just going to post this. Radar suggests another inch may be on the way, too. The Omaha guys just need this same system to pop up in winter.

There was a good area of 2-4" of rain overnight in western Iowa. I can understand that. One quick band of orange, with a dot or two of red, popped up on radar and passed over me this morning and it was very heavy. I picked up a quick 0.54".

I'm not as enthused about this system over here as I was a couple days ago. Models are now suggesting the heaviest rain will be from se NE through western and north Iowa. Instead of an all-day soaker, we may get a band of rain first thing Monday morning and then not much else for much of the day. WPC had my area in widespread 1.5-2.0", but now we're down to about an inch.

I'm looking forward to the Monday soaker. I enjoy a day like that once in a while.

I didn't think we'd get anything today, but cells and boundaries converged over Cedar Rapids this evening and parked for an hour+. It wasn't torrential, but a solid hour of heavy to very heavy rain added up to 1.60". I sure do love heavy rain... every bit as much as heavy snow. Not surprisingly, the north side still did better... much better in some cases. Just north of downtown northeastward to Hiawatha and Marion received 3-4". Some neighbors of mine have young grandkids in town. They live in Kuwait. They were outside running around and playing in the heavy rain this evening. I bet that was pretty fun for them. I doubt they see much rain over there. We may get a bit more tomorrow, and Monday could be a widespread soaker.

Other than the general boring weather, the one thing that stands out about this summer is the lack of wind. It seems like we get one day with a nice breeze, then a week or two of dead calm, one more day with a breeze, then another week or two of dead calm.

Broken record.... nothing here, just wet the pavement. I keep saying this every rain event. It's just unreal how the north side keeps getting hit over and over and over while we get much less or nothing just a few miles away. It's like flipping a coin twenty times and getting heads eighteen times. That's what this summer has been like.

A round of light to moderate rain this morning and a nice downpour this evening totaled 0.34" here, putting my 2-day total at a solid 1.66". We should be good for the next week as the dry pattern returns.

I picked up a nice 1.23" of rain overnight. Of course, like nearly every other rain event this summer, my side of town got the least while the north side got the most. One of my favorite experiences in life is lightning, thunder, and heavy rain pounding the roof in the middle of the night while I lie in bed.

We just can't seem to catch a break lately... especially this side of the city. I was hoping storms would sink far enough south to get us something decent tonight, but now there's a heavy cell missing south, while more storms blow up well north where they've already had three rounds today.

The CAMs have been terrible today. There have been three storm clusters moving through the hw20 corridor in Iowa today, and the 3k nam and HRRR have not seen any of it. Even the latest HRRR has nothing in the Waterloo area where there are currently strong storms.

The clouds through the middle of Iowa vanished and the heat surged north. We went from 76/65 to 90/74. Unfortunately, that means the storms are going to remain north through at least tonight. The severe drought area of southern Iowa is approaching 100 degrees.

The storm complexes in Iowa are not dropping rain here, but they are pushing much farther east and south than models predicted(the HRRR still doesn't see it). The result is a cooler-and-cloudier-than-expected day, with the temp now back down to the upper 70s. It might be tough to hit the expected 91.