hawkeye_wx

It appears we may be stuck in the 50s for much of the day. It's the first taste of fall.

Part of north-central Iowa is in the mid 40s this morning. It's coming. There is not a single 80º+ high temp in our forecast over the next week.

Models are pretty wet across Iowa over the next ten days... beginning Sunday/Monday... with a possible large, cool ridge dropping in after that for several days.

I received a welcome 2.04" overnight.

Tornado sirens are going off in Cedar Rapids.... radar indicated near the airport.

September heat waves suck. Any real rain keeps getting pushed back... now not until mid next week on the Euro.

Recon just lifted to flight-home altitude, so it appears there won't be another pass.

We are finally seeing a blowup of very deep convection near the center over the last 30 minutes.

It's a pretty disheveled-looking core on satellite and radar this morning. It just doesn't have time to do much.

June and July were very wet here (July because of the big event at the end of the month), but I only got 2.88" in August.

This is a bad year for apple scab on the crabapple trees here because of all the rain. My biggest tree is supposed to be resistant, but it has really been dumping leaves for the last month. I've spent a lot of hours tediously cleaning them out of the garden under the tree. One of these years it might not be worth the trouble anymore.

It has been two weeks since our last rain. We could use a soaker.

That spot two counties east of Indianapolis, where radar is estimating over a foot of rain, has been storming for 11 straight hours without a break, which is insane. Radar is now blowing up up with a bunch more to their nw.

Everything is missing me this month. A line of big storms blew up just west of Cedar Rapids this morning and it certainly looked like we would be hit, but the first cell sagged south and then the rest of them followed. A band of 2-3" fell barely south of CR and I only got 0.11".

It barely got wet again this morning. Since the 4" event on July 31st into August 1st, I've received only a half inch of rain.