hawkeye_wx

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.

There are only a few snow reports trickling in so far. The highest is 5.5".

The ensembles continue to show 2.5-3" of rain across the area over the next two weeks. That's great as we head into the warm season, but it's a problem for the construction crew that has to re-grade the new stormwater wetland next to my house and then plant seed.

My area did not quite get the 3+" of rain shown on the ensembles earlier in the week, but I'm happy with 2.30". Now we get to deal with four days of cold before the warmth and action returns.

My event total rain is 1.73".

The line looked potent, and was severe-warned, as it moved through Cedar Rapids, but it was bit of a dud.