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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.
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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.
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I picked up 0.48" from the solid rain shield this morning. My April total is 7.19".
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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".
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It's nice we are getting several days of dry weather, but it is not going to last.
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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.
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Only 0.17" here from the broken line of storms last evening. My April total is 5.56".
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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.
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The environment is now quite wet. I got another 0.83" overnight, boosting my April total to nearly 5 inches.
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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.
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88 mph gust at the Dubuque airport.
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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.
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We are well inside the tornado watch, but models are mostly keeping the storms north of Cedar Rapids.
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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.
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1.23" in my gauge this morning... 3.53" in April so far.
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There are only a few snow reports trickling in so far. The highest is 5.5".
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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.
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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.
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My event total rain is 1.73".
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The line looked potent, and was severe-warned, as it moved through Cedar Rapids, but it was bit of a dud.
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Got 0.30" of rain overnight. A couple stronger cells with vivid lightning passed just barely north, got a good view.
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A much-needed widespread soaker over the next week.
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The 5-minute obs show that Cedar Rapids did hit 90º today. CR's previous record first 90º day was April 10th, 1930. We smashed it by three weeks. Update: Despite the intra-hour measurements, the official high is showing as 89º as we didn't quite hit 90º. The intra-hour measurements are apparently rounded up.
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We've hit 89º in Cedar Rapids. A couple days ago I think DVN had 72º today. Since then they went to 75º, 80º last night, and 85º this morning.
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Cedar Rapids is 88º. Iowa City is 90º.
