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An elevated hailer is approaching Cedar Rapids this morning, currently warned for 1" hail.

Models have been flirting with an upper low digging down into the Ohio Valley next week, keeping our region a bit cool, but the GFS has lost that idea and the Euro is trending away from it.  Tonight's GFS and Euro are blowtorching the plains in the extended, with a bit of summer attempting to spread east across the midwest.

It was a C here... better than Cyclone's winter, but still well south of the prevailing snowstorm track.

There might be a spin-up along the line just south of Cyclone.  Cyclone is getting hit hard by heavy rain, hail, and wind.

69 mph wind gust at the Cedar Rapids airport, 70 mph in Hiawatha.  I could hear the roaring wind coming.  The line was weakening as it moved through, but we still managed to get about a 60 mph gust.

That's it for me today.  Most of the action went around me.

The tornado signature is back on the cell that passed nw of Iowa City.  It's approaching Mt. Vernon, east of Cedar Rapids.

The tornadic cell near Iowa City has inhaled the trailing storm, so the great-looking structure is fading.

Another severe storm has surged northeast and has nearly caught the tornadic cell in Iowa.

Iowa City is up next for the Iowa tornado.

It currently looks like all the cells will pass southeast and northwest of Cedar Rapids.

Ottumwa is under the gun from a rotating supercell.

DVN is most concerned with the lead wave tracking from south of KC to northern Illinois.

Hmmm.....  The HRRR has mid 70s and storms forming east of Cedar Rapids.  The 3k NAM has low 60s and storms forming near Des Moines.  

The 12z HRRR has pushed nearly all of the action east of Cedar Rapids tomorrow.  Northern Illinois looks like a fun spot.

Now this is what I'm looking for... 60s and widespread thunderstorms.  Time for the snowstorms to vamoose.

4 hours ago, cyclone77 said:

Picked up a brief period of freezing rain this morning with little warm air advection wing.  

Some serious rippage out northwest of Des Moines.  Carroll at 1/8 mile in heavy snow for a few obs now.

Up to 9 inches of snow has fallen in the western Iowa weenie band this morning.  These late March systems are producing very heavy banding.

Jesus Christ..... 16 and 17 inch reports are coming in from nw Illinois.  These locations must have received 4+"/hr rates.

Wow, 12.5 inches southeast of Dubuque!!!!

10" report now north of the Quad Cities.

5 minutes ago, madwx said:

Somewhere in eastern Dane county is going to get a foot out of this

Milwaukee NWS's snow map, last night, had Madison getting about 3 inches.  Surprise!

9 inches has fallen northwest of the Quad Cities.  Iowa City got 4 inches.  I did not get a flake.

Take all this shit to the banter thread.

The trend across all models this morning is to fade back east with the heavy snow band.  Southeast Wisconsin looks like a pretty good spot.

A band of 2-4 inches of snow fell across northern Iowa overnight... definite over-performer.

12z Euro

Of course, cut the snow totals in half due to lousy ratios and warm ground.

Most models are now showing a strengthening low cutting into the lakes Friday night into Saturday, with a burst of snow from southeast Iowa into Wisconsin.

Today I received 0.20" of rain, followed by 0.7" of snow.  The northwest wind is currently howling.  The wind chill should be close to zero by morning.