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  1. hawkeye_wx
    We had our first dip into the upper 20s with heavy frost this morning. The leaves of my small maple tree and my neighbor's large maple tree are pouring down pretty good this morning.
  2. hawkeye_wx
    This system is interesting. It's a solid tropical cyclone with deep convection at the center, but there is a strong cold front crashing in from the west, approaching the core.
  3. hawkeye_wx
    The system out by the Azores seems to be a pretty clear tropical cyclone.
  4. hawkeye_wx
    Typhoon Bualoi is about to move over/near Anatahan island in the Mariana Islands. This is the second strong typhoon to directly hit the tiny island this month. That's difficult to do.
  5. hawkeye_wx
    0.75" in my gauge this morning. It was nice to see/hear some heavy downpours again after a needed ten days off.
  6. hawkeye_wx
    Mason City, IA has been in the mid 30s with light snow for much of the day.
  7. hawkeye_wx
    The temp has fallen to 31º in my yard.
  8. hawkeye_wx
    I did not bother covering any plants tonight. It's too windy. I don't really like to do all that work this late in the season, anyway. I still have several flower pots in the garage for the hummers. They all appear to know how to use feeders, too.
  9. hawkeye_wx
    Another 0.82" of rain over here today. My October total is already 3.35". Locations just nw/n of Cedar Rapids have received nearly twice that.
  10. hawkeye_wx
    Picked up another 0.46" today on top of last night's 2.05". It's pretty wet around here. It's even wetter just north. I wish I could bottle this pattern and open it up in December.
  11. hawkeye_wx
    The sharp edge of the big rain event ended up in between Cedar Rapids and Iowa City. Iowa City got nothing while I got 2.04". Locations just north of CR got 3-4+".
  12. hawkeye_wx
    It is 81 with a dew of 73 here in Cedar Rapids. I think 73 may be a new October record.
  13. hawkeye_wx
    And there you go.... the 00z Euro has 99L getting caught under the ridge. It sends a strengthening system steadily wsw into Cuba, a la Ike.
  14. hawkeye_wx
    And just like that, it has been upgraded to TS Imelda.
  15. hawkeye_wx
    Models are suggesting the gulf could perk up in 7-10 days.
  16. hawkeye_wx
    COD is down, but there's an odd quirk. While I cannot make any fresh connections to the site, the two radar loops I had running yesterday when COD went down are still working and continue to refresh.
  17. hawkeye_wx
    I just saw a funnel cloud from my house... my first ever. I was outside at the end of my street, in an open area, when I saw what appeared to be a funnel dipping out of a small cell that had just popped. It drifted south and became better defined for 5+ minutes, then dissipated just as the sirens went off. It apparently came 3/4 of the way to the ground. The NWS is asking if anyone saw it touch down. Here in the city my view of the horizon was obstructed .
  18. hawkeye_wx
    The SPC is expecting the MCS to possibly strengthen this afternoon as central and eastern Iowa heat up and destabilize.
  19. hawkeye_wx
    Yeah, the CAMs insisted the morning MCS would crap out as it entered nw Iowa. So far it is holding together very well.
  20. hawkeye_wx
    Same here. I was outside taking a hummingbird feeder down when the gust front hit. I just held on.
  21. hawkeye_wx
    The HRRR can be a good model, but it appears to be terrible with these low-shear, cold-pool-driven MCSs. The model struggles to see them and refuses to keep them going beyond the first couple hours of each run.
  22. hawkeye_wx
    And the very next run has the MCS tracking from Missouri to the Ohio Valley.
  23. hawkeye_wx
    My county was severe-warned, but the wind maxed at only 30-35 mph.
  24. hawkeye_wx
    Well, so much for that. The severe potential has been shifted south and west. We've been downgraded.
  25. hawkeye_wx
    Tuesday evening looks pretty active over here. We're in the enhanced area now, but Des Moines thinks a further upgrade is possible.
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