Widespread 6 to 8.5 inches in april across much of Iowa! It has rained on 14 of 28 days. Im at 7.23" for April

I recorded 0.20” of rainfall yesterday afternoon. There were reports of high winds with falling trees and power outages. One person was killed East of Cedar Springs. The winds were hit and miss and here in my yard there was no noticeable winds. The temperature had held steady around 61 until about 6AM and now has dropped down to 55. There is a chance of showers tonight and Wednesday. It will be much cooler with a good chance of frost and freezing temperatures the next several nights. Highs will be in the 50’s and lows in the low 30’s. The official H/L yesterday at Grand Rapids was 70/46 there was 0.29” of rainfall, the highest wind speed was 41 MPH out of the SE. Some Weather Conditions were Thunder, Rain and Fog. For today the average H/L is 63/42 the record high of 83 was in 1901, the coldest high of 40 was in 1908 the record low of 24 was in 1945 the warmest low of 61 was in 1974 and 1914. The most rainfall of 1.45” was in 2020 the most snowfall of 0.9” was in 1961. Some weather history for April 28th 1928 A coastal storm produced tremendous late season snows in the Central Appalachians, including 35 inches at Bayard WV, 31 inches at Somerset PA, and 30 inches at Grantsville MD. High winds accompanying the heavy wet snow uprooted trees and unroofed a number of homes. The storm caused great damage to fruit trees and wild life. (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)1990 Twenty-nine cities in the northeastern U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date as readings soared into the 80s and lower 90s. Highs of 88 degrees at Binghamton NY, 94 degrees at Buffalo NY, 89 degrees at Erie PA, 90 degrees at Newark NJ, 93 degrees at Rochester NY and 92 degrees at Syracuse NY, were records for the month of April. (The National Weather Summary)

Enjoy the thunder, that's really cool you'll be able to see some east coast storms

After months of mostly above normal temperatures its almost weird seeing normal to cooler than normal conditions coming up. I even saw some fire flies earlier, which is more than a month earlier than normal from my recollection.