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The GFS has much of Iowa in the middle 40s in the early afternoon a week from today. That would be pretty insane.

MLI snuck in another 90 today. Hit 87 here.

00z Euro has wet snow mixing in near Sioux Falls SD early Tue morning, with a pretty significant snowstorm for much of Colorado and far western NE. Insert Ned Stark meme here.

On the plus side the dandelions appear to be thriving.

They at least could have hoisted a windshield wiper advisory.

Off to a fast start for September, picked up 0.02" of rain this afternoon.

Welcome to autumn! Met fall means more to me than astro fall, so AFAIA concerned summer is ova!

Just had about 25 seconds worth of large rain drops sprinkling down from the heavens. It shall rank as the #2 event of August, behind the derecho of course.

Extremely impressive vids. The aftermath videos showing huge amounts of tree debris in front of literally every residence is amazing as well. These vids were shot on Pine Wood Drive NE in northern Cedar Rapids, pretty close to Hiawatha. The church losing it's roof is River of Life Church. Church viewed from the northwest side.

Pretty sweet sunrise out back this morning. Won't be mowing for awhile though.

Cool, forgot about that.

Looks like MLI will finish August with a paltry 0.14" of rain. 0.72" here. Definitely starting to look like Yuma Arizona out there.

Dew has dipped under 50 a few times this afternoon. Feels great.

Same here, last flakes fell on May 10th, which is the latest I can remember for here since I've been alive. You guys have a good shot at getting some flakes from the lakes early on, so chances of early flakes there def are better than here. We always need to get lucky and get some sort of early season event, or a big lakes storm with a large backlash of snow flurries. The early season backlash flurries are almost always modeled too far south in the mid-range, only to pull further to the north/east as the event gets closer.

This time last year we were only 2 months away from tracking what would be a pretty nice early season snow event.

If you have enough room plant an Autumn Blaze Maple back there. Fantastic tree, and extremely fast growing. Made it to 94 at MLI, and 93 here today. 25 days AOA 90 at MLI for the year, and 24 here.

Man, we just can't buy a decent storm around here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In all seriousness was hoping we could get a decent rain out of this event. There is a cell heading this way, but the overall trend is naso good.

This August mini-drought has been enough to decimate an aggressive onslaught of July crab grass in my yard, so I guess that's a plus lol. 0.72" for Aug here.

93 here and 92 @ MLI today. Meh

Not bad. It's 150 mph right now, but wouldn't be surprised to see 160 mph upgrade post landfall to a cat 5.

This video is pretty incredible. Might rank up there with the pine tree video. Near the end siding is ripping off the garage he's shooting the video out of.

94 here and MLI for a high today. All in all kind of disappointing heat wave considering how dry it is, and it seemed like the potential for upper 90s was there.

Yep. The whole area was down a few degrees. Maybe the smoke was thicker today?

I'll go Sabine Pass @165 mph. It is 2020 you know.