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That spot two counties east of Indianapolis, where radar is estimating over a foot of rain, has been storming for 11 straight hours without a break, which is insane. Radar is now blowing up up with a bunch more to their nw.

Everything is missing me this month. A line of big storms blew up just west of Cedar Rapids this morning and it certainly looked like we would be hit, but the first cell sagged south and then the rest of them followed. A band of 2-3" fell barely south of CR and I only got 0.11".

It barely got wet again this morning. Since the 4" event on July 31st into August 1st, I've received only a half inch of rain.

The models' overnight forecast was awful. There is no big MCS rolling through sw MN and far northern IA. Instead, it's just an area of scattered meh convection farther south in Iowa.

The dew point is back up to 80º here this afternoon.

Today's system trended south, so I only got 0.13". Southern Iowa mostly missed the last system, so they got what they needed.

My July rain total is 6.75". My June-July rain total is 15.79".

My 36-hr rain total is 4.29".

The Cedar Rapids area was the bulls-eye this morning. 2-3" of rain fell across the city. My total is 2.70". Up to 4" fell just east of the city. It was just pure heavy rain with no thunder. I love mornings like this. A few spots could get another 1-2" later today and tonight. July has been dry, but today's rain doubled my monthly total and we are now above avg.

The Cedar Rapids dew point is up to 84º. I think that's the highest since 1995.

I think this oppressively-humid air feels great (for 5-10 minutes) when I've been in AC for a while. I get cold inside.

Burlington is 92/85/120 Ames is 92/86/123 This is as high as the dew point ever gets around here. It's only 83 here.

This afternoon's line of storms was gusty, like the morning line, but it was weakening as it moved through and didn't last long. I only got 0.38" this time. We were not able to recover enough after the first line.

Today had potential to be the hottest day here, but the morning storms held the heat back in central and western Iowa.