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hawkeye_wx

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  1. 13 hours ago, cyclone77 said:

    I'd like to trade this ROF pattern in for a different one.  This particular one is lame AF.

    Yep.  It's late June and we are still waiting for the first MCS activity of the year.  Storm season has been a dud.

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  2. 19 minutes ago, cyclone77 said:

    Fairly lame heat wave for this area so far.  Looks like temps today will only make the 93-94 range again.  Dews not impressive as well.  

    I guess after achieving 120+ heat indices/83 dews many times, heat waves like this just don't impress lol.  

    The NWS forecast often has upper 90s during these heat waves, but we rarely get higher than low to mid 90s.

  3. 5 hours ago, A-L-E-K said:

    looks like a nice fat cell heading your way this morning

    All I got was a little bit of light rain.  It took all morning just to get 0.12".  As often happens with these summer morning storm events, it was fed from the backside by a low level jet.  The nose of the jet remained to my west, so the storms continued to back-build, and any storm that tried to move east of that LLJ nose quickly vanished.  Only a couple counties west and northwest widespread 1-3" fell.

    The year without thunderstorms continues, as if winter wasn't boring enough.  Maybe next week's ring of fire pattern can finally produce something.

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  4. Yesterday's plains convection drove this system well south of the model forecast.  It's a big bust for many locations across Iowa.  I'm at least getting one more decent batch of general rain this morning.  We are getting into late June, but we are still waiting for our first good thunderstorm.  The vast majority of our rain this spring has been the stratiform type with little to no thunder.

  5. We have received 0.53" of rain (all on June 3rd) since May 22nd.  This is the time of year when we average 1.25" per week.  The lawns are beginning to brown.

    From 2007 to 2016, I averaged 8" of rain in June, a pretty crazy wet stretch.  We have not even reached average rain in June since 2020.

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  6. There has been a big change on the Euro in the mid to late week period.  The multiple rounds of storms that had been forecast to remain north of my area are now dropping farther south.  Instead of zero rain, 1-2" is possible.

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  7. This system was a dud for a large swath of sw through ne Iowa, where not much rain fell.... following days of models dropping 1+" across most of the state.  I was lucky to get 0.53", with only a couple very low rumbles.  Models are showing very little rain, again, for the next week+.  

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