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April 2024 Observations and Discussion
You've done pretty well as has @OttumwaSnomow and this mornings rain is just adding to that theme today. I fully anticipate this pattern to persist well into MAY which could be too much of a good thing? Hope it doesn't get TOO wet for the planting season.- 1
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April 2024 Observations and Discussion
I wanted to comment about the weather on Tuesday, but I always get sidetracked in doing and looking at other things. Plus I was helping with storm cleanup for people from my church that evening. The first batch of showers Tuesday afternoon was heavier then it appeared on radar as PWATS were quite high, but I was in a gap between heavier cells of course. Still ended the first round with exactly 0.40". Then a short period of sunshine preceded an ominous shelf cloud from the last brief intense line of storms. The sky looked greenish, and I was out shooting video (with iPhone 15 Pro Max) and photos till the last second! But only 0.24" rain from that line with wind gust only around 43 mph and not as windy at my location as early in the afternoon. But had some decent hail with a few of the largest stones at 1" diameter. But 2 farms approximately 3-4 miles se. of me had buildings destroyed from a possible little spin up tornado or microburst? One building was totally flattened and the other farm had half of the roof gone among other damage. Total rainfall on Tuesday was only 0.64". The drought maps may be off for my location since we've had very good rains in March, and especially this month. Field tile lines are running since the heavy rains of early April and water is standing in roadside ditches after each rainfall. With today's rainfall I'm approaching 4" for the month. And it looks active again by late April. Just checked my weather station and I'm just over 4" for the month now, with over a third of an inch so far today.- 1
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April 2024 Observations and Discussion
It appears that the majority of the U.S. Cornbelt region will be blessed with a lot of moisture as we close out April. @Clinton you should finally fill up that watering hole of yours! After looking at the overnight radar loops, our KC peeps did fairly well I'd say...#trainingstorms https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/current/mcview.phtml?prod=ictrad&java=script&mode=archive&frames=75&interval=10&year=2024&month=4&day=17&hour=22&minute=5- 1
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April 2024 Weather in the PNW
06Z GFS was not so emphatic about a major pattern change... looks more variable like we have been seeing lately. EPS also looks variable and seems to be shifting the focus more to the south with the troughing next week. I am sure there will be some rain events over the next couple of weeks though. -
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