hawkeye_wx

I received 0.80" of rain this afternoon. As expected, areas just west/north got the 1+".

Most models have pushed the heavier rain northwest of me today as the dry slot really shoots up into eastern Iowa and nw Illinois.

The fog has really held down our temp this week. Yesterday, mid to upper 40s turned into 30s. Today, it's in the upper 50s in Ottumwa, but we are still in the upper 30s. It is finally sunny, but there is not enough time left to heat up too much.

The GFS and Euro have flipped with the late-week system coming from the sw. The GFS had widespread rain while the Euro missed well southeast. Now the Euro is wet and the GFS is suppressed and dry. The latest GFS doesn't have a flake or drop through Jan 20th.

Apparently, the Euro weeklies are showing plenty of snow and cold across the midwest from mid January to early February.

Models continue to be very boring and dry through mid January for much of the middle of the country.

My gauge collected 0.10" of melted snow, but I was only able to measure about 0.8" of snow in the grass.

The Cedar Rapids airport gusted to 63 mph.

I got a solid 0.47" of rain, which is more than what most models were predicting. The temp has crashed from 43º to 25º just in a few hours.

Yeah, models are out through the first week of January and there is nothing. We'll probably end up with a 1-to-2-week period of snow and cold later in January or February and that'll be it for winter. That seems to be the way it works now.

Models continue to fade the Christimas warmth. A few days ago, the GFS and Euro had low 60s up to Cedar Rapids. Now, both are down to low 40s, and the 60s are way down in Missouri. Friday is looking much cooler, too.

Not a flake here.

A few model runs here and there had been throwing in a day in the 50s or even 60s here over the next couple weeks, but they have moderated the warmup. The latest Euro and GFS have a couple days in the 40s, but then it's just a bunch of 30s with a few 20s thrown in, so it's mostly relatively mild, but no blow torch. The snow will still melt off.

The HRRR had dropped us all the way down to <1", but we actually got a bit of heavy snow on the northern edge this morning and I picked up a nice, fluffy 2 inches. I'll take it. There is a 6" report just sw of Iowa City. That area, just one county to my sw, has received 8-10 inches from the two clippers.

The first wave trended sw and I ended up with a paltry 0.5".