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The CAMs were wrong about everything getting stuck in Missouri and nothing getting up here. There were no strong storms around here, so in that regard the weekend was a dud. However, another round of solid rain dropped 0.64" in my yard overnight. Four decent rounds of rain through the weekend added up to 1.86". The rest of the month is looking drier and fairly boring again.

The Friday-Monday warmth has been underwhelming. DVN had every day in the 85-87º range, but we've come up a few to several degrees short each day. Today's it's only in the mid 70s.

Got another 0.47" overnight into this morning, so at least we are getting something from each round. My weekend total is 1.22". Models are still suggesting almost everything will be down in Missouri later today.

Models are really crapping this line out as it moves into eastern Iowa later tonight. Models are also driving tonight's line well south through Missouri, which then leads to everything on Monday developing and staying down there. This might end up being a big dud of a weekend for areas around here.

About 0.43" of rain here overnight. It was nice to hear thunder and rain on the roof again.

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.