Hawkeye

0.39" here from the Friday disturbance... now just waiting to see how the frontal convection well to the south affects how much moisture makes it up here later today.

The clouds held off a bit longer than expected last night and allowed us to fall to 33 or 34. More rain is about to move in... expecting about 0.20" from this initial disturbance.

I picked up a surprise 0.50" of rain overnight, boosting my system total to 0.74". Models never had a particularly good handle on this system for my area.

We won't be seeing any accumulating snow, but the euro keeps much of Iowa in the 30s to low 40s behind the system on Monday... very windy and showery, too. All my plants will be seeing a lot of garage time over the next week.

Some areas down in Missouri/Illinois may need a boat by next weekend. Models have generally come back nw with the big lows this week.

A couple days ago I was pretty excited about next week's pattern. Now the southeast model trend has Iowa potentially gettting stuck with chilly, showery weather for several days.

Recent runs of the HRRR have become much more enthusiastic about a good line of storms making it into eastern Iowa late this evening.

DVN has a new update stating what we're seeing on the models. They have low confidence regarding storm formation over in this area.

SPC update has shifted the enhanced area west out of eastern Iowa.

I noticed this as well. Everyone is talking up the severe chance in Iowa, but the HRRR and 3k NAM show nothing developing in much of the "enhanced" area in central/eastern Iowa.

I picked up 2.23" of rain last evening. We could use a break from the rain, but we won't be getting one.

Yeah, there has been a lot of rain and small hail this evening. The first flash flood warning of the season was issued for my local area. It has been thundering for hours.

We never fell below the mid 60s overnight, easliy our warmest low temp of the year. We are already in the low 70s despite a lot of clouds. Regarding the storms later, we'll just have to wait and see what pops and where.

We reached the low 70s this afternoon with dews in the low 60s. A line of thundershowers passed through this evening, dropping a half inch of rain. Nearly all of our rain this spring has been long-duration light, so this was the heaviest downpour I've seen in a while.

I picked up 0.42" of rain last night. With a dew in the 40s, the temp quickly dropped when the rain moved in. There was a bit of light thunder, but mostly just cool spring rain.

Warmest day of the year here today (78), and also the most humid (61).

DVN mentioned we could approach 80 Sunday if clouds can hold off. We hit 76 once in February, so it shouldn't be too difficult to reach that on April 9th with halfway favorable conditions. The grass is quite green now after all the recent rain, so it will really take off with this weekend's warmth. I need to get the mower ready.

0.66" of rain here. We've had four big systems move through over the last couple weeks, each dropping between 1/3 and 3/4 inches. Other than one very brief downpour, our rain rates through all four systems remained in the 0.04-0.12"/hr range. I'm looking forward to moving beyond cold light rain.

As of this evening's model runs, the NAM is the only model that still drops anything on areas from Cedar Rapids to southern Wisconsin. This thing is shifting south big time.

The models are trending nw with the Monday system and se with the Wednesday/Thursday system. Monday won't be a huge deal, but a few days ago most models had this system passing well south of the region. Now they have rain spreading nw over much of Iowa. As the first system grows more robust on the models, the midweek system hot on its heels is gradually getting shunted southward. The nw half of Iowa gets little to nothing now. The heavier stuff even misses me southeast, although I still get into the light to moderate defo rain.

I finished March with 2.35" of precip, which is about average. My snowfall was 4.6" from just the one event.

I picked up a disappointing 0.76" of rain from this system. Most runs of most models had an inch to well over an inch falling. I'm looking forward to seeing more warmth and thunderstorms again after all the cold, gloom, and light rain/drizzle.

I picked up a disappointing, but decent 0.53" from this system. I certainly hope the Euro is right about more wet systems lifting through the area next week and beyond. The GFS has gone suppressed and dry.

I hit 71 earlier, now down to 60. The rain is very slowly moving in.

It's a very pleasant day over here, the warmest day in a couple weeks. That's a pretty-looking map. We don't need any big drought to blow up over the central US. We are not dry, but I'd love to see some big soaker systems drop a couple inches and really get everything greened up.