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The dry period has been nice after weeks of rain, but after 2+ weeks of nothing we need rain again. Fortunately, we should get it this weekend into early next week.

Cedar Rapids got down to 31º this morning. The personal stations closest to my home also dropped to 31 or 32º, although then clouds moved in and the temp quickly rose. There was no ice in my bird bath at 7am.

I picked up 0.48" from the solid rain shield this morning. My April total is 7.19".

We got two lines of storms last night, one out ahead of the main line and then the weakening main line (although I got most of the rain from the main line). Together, I got 1.02" of rain. A band just west and north got up to 2". Totals dropped off quickly east and south of CR. My April total is up to 6.71".

It's nice we are getting several days of dry weather, but it is not going to last.

We got nothing over here. The first cells developed east of CR, then the frontal line was broken into mostly little garden-variety cells, which mostly went around me. I only got 0.13" of rain.

Only 0.17" here from the broken line of storms last evening. My April total is 5.56".

Another 0.45" this morning boosted my April total to 5.39". This is the most rain I've received in the first half of April in the last twenty years. Only four years in that period have full-month April totals higher than this year's first half.

The environment is now quite wet. I got another 0.83" overnight, boosting my April total to nearly 5 inches.

I was just awaken by another good cell at the front end of the LLJ convection. We got some small hail, wind, and very heavy rain, but nothing severe.

88 mph gust at the Dubuque airport.

The cell that just moved through Cedar Rapids didn't look super potent, but still dropped a few pieces of hail up to 0.75" in my yard.

We are well inside the tornado watch, but models are mostly keeping the storms north of Cedar Rapids.

Another day, another soaker. I picked up 0.57" of rain this afternoon/evening. More rain is coming as early as Monday night, but especially Tuesday/Wednesday, then a good event Friday night. Wet, wet, wet.

1.23" in my gauge this morning... 3.53" in April so far.