Natester

Well, hawkeye is for certain going to exceed 30 inches of snow accumulated this season since November. Also it's snowing cats and dogs.

Cedar Rapids (CID) tied the monthly record high for February today (76F, set in 2017).

The tornado in Wisconsin came very close to Vince Waelti's house where his family was at. Missed his house by likely less than a mile. He was chasing this storm and was on this tornado when he realized that this tornado was going to track towards his house.

HRRR says major ice storm for central Illinois.

I wonder how much new snow hawkeye has gotten since his last report of 1.5 inches? I would imagine at least a few more inches of new snow.

He might be at work.

03z RAP takes the low to Chicago/Milwaukee and bombs it out to 965 mb.

Yeah, that's what I was worried about today, the temps at snow onset. Thankfully the snow is like pixie dust here and very little in the way of accumulation on trees and powerlines. Temp just below freezing (31F)

Actually, Michigan had a killer tornado last year also. (Gaylord EF3 on May 20, 2022)

Cedar Rapids is reporting 100/79/120 at 3:05 PM. First 100F day since August 30, 2013.

Just got our power back after a little over 3 hours in the dark. Internet is still down though.

Lost power here at around 8:20 PM. Worst of the winds just missed us to the north. There were winds up to 90 mph in Hiawatha. Houses across the street have power. Hopefully we'll get our power back soon.

The Cedar Rapids Airport got down to 47F last night, setting a new record low for the date. The previous record low was 49F set in years 1984 and 1997.

Very glad that most of Iowa didn't get hit by yesterday's derecho. Although the one yesterday wasn't quite as extreme as 8/10/20, it still did alot of damage based on reports. I would pass on any derecho, especially the extreme kind.

18z GFS has a derecho starting from western Nebraska at hour 174, traversing through Iowa at hour 186 and dissipating in South Carolina at hour 204. No way in the world that is verifying.