Hawkeye

It appears I never checked in here at the end of the storm. I ended up with 6.2" on the snow board that was cleared halfway through. There was no more than 5.5 on the ground and uncleared board, though. I never did see any heavy snow, just moderate rates for 12 hours. Combined with the fact it was all at night, it was as unsatisfying as a 6" storm can be. Model qpf consensus was 0.8-0.9", but I ended up with only 0.54". A band from Sioux Falls to Dubuque to Chicago to nw of Detroit really got rocked, though, so that was pretty neat to see.

3.5 inches in my yard as of a half hour ago, so the accumulation has been rather slow. We likely won't come anywhere near what DVN was forecasting.

Weekend snow event is mostly gone from the 12z CMC... just has a weak event passing sw of Iowa. Obviously, the models are not going to have a great handle on the shortwave dropping in from the pacnw, riding the southern edge of the cold shot, until later in the week.

Kinda neat how the line is a series of arcing line segments. A weaker part of the line moved over my yard. I picked up 0.34" of rain and moderate wind, with a bit of lightning. Areas just south and east got severe wind. It's nice to see parts of the midwest getting some decent snow.

We had a good frost this morning, but only a light freeze at best. The optimum cooling conditions were farther to the east.

My county ended up being the bullseye for this system. I finished with a real nice 2.06". That bumps my October total to 3.29". I had 0.00" eight days ago. More rain will fall on Halloween.

Models have really solidified with a nice rain event for eastern Iowa Tuesday through early Wednesday. October may turn out pretty decent after not getting a drop of rain for the first three weeks.

A week ago I had zero rain in October, but a couple decent systems have dropped 1.22". Next week could be pretty good as well, especially if the Euro is right with a more robust pull of the precip shield to the nw.

A surprise cluster of storms this evening gave us vivid lightning and dropped 0.59" of rain in my yard. A bit of small hail fell in a few locations.

The NWS and local mets have now lowered the Saturday morning low to the upper 20s. I'll try to save a couple of my best hummingbird plants just in case a late straggler passes by, but the highest priority will be covering my late-planted beets.

12z Euro is the coldest run yet for Saturday morning, dropping the 850 temp to -4 to -6C. The surface map shows only nearing 32 in spots, but it often underforecasts lows on the cold mornings. I won't be surprised if the NWS ends up with upper 20s to low 30s. That would largely take care of my garden blooms.

Wow, I had no idea it was that warm out in the plains.

It appears the 12z Euro would have Saturday morning (192 hrs) the coldest here in eastern Iowa. By Sunday morning we're seeing return flow. The 12z GFS has Friday morning the coldest, although not as cold as the Euro.

Hopefully, there will be a lot of southern plains action, followed by low pressure turning up into the lakes.

Thanks.... quite a toasty month.

Anyone have the US temp anomaly graphic for September?

Run after run of the Euro keeps the pattern stuck through day ten.

2.99" is my 48-hour total from this system, the best rain event since June.

A year ago today we had a high temp of 51. For that week we had two days in the 50s and four in the 60s, with overnight lows in the mid to upper 30s on four nights. This morning's 45 was nippy for sitting outside to watch the birds, but it was a very pleasant day in the 60s.

Last night's big rain event was a bust for much of Iowa. The disturbance sweeping by to the north and storms well southwest left my area in a bad spot. The models performed horribly.

0.82" in my yard, heavier a few miles north. Waterloo got 4.10".

Parts of Iowa are getting it bad today. Up to 9 inches of rain has fallen north of Ames. Flash flood warnings have been issued eastward into the Waterloo area.

Got a nice 1.07" of rain overnight, perfect timing given the dry last week and dry next week. A heavier band of 3-4+ inches fell from central to southeast Iowa.

I think the precip maps for the two strongest el ninos (82-83 & 97-98) showed a tongue of above normal precip up through Iowa, with the dry pocket over in the Ohio Valley. A few ninos that weren't quite as strong were dry here. Anything can happen.

I got 1.51" of rain yesterday. The airport, south of the city, got 2.35". Clouds and rain kept us in the 70s all day, rather than the expected 90. My July rain total ended at 3.88" thanks to a couple heavy rain events the last few days. The CR airport got 4" just in the last few days, so likely 5+ for the month. The dryness is gone.