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hawkeye_wx

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  1. I was fortunate to get 0.25" before the storm complex dried up. It filled my rain barrel for another week, which always makes me happy. Models show another batch of scattered storms popping around here this afternoon.
  2. Storms are firing over western Iowa. Some areas over central/western Iowa could get good rain, but models show everything dying when it reaches the dry air over eastern Iowa. As others have said, this may be it for the next ten days.
  3. It's tough to get precip from a garbage rex block pattern like this. I sure as hell hope this doesn't continue all summer.
  4. Here we are at mid June and models continue to show an endless stream of rex blocks and omega blocks. It's quite depressing.
  5. Models got the overnight period wrong. Some never had any rain. A few popped an fgen band over Cedar Rapids, dropping decent rain, but all models dried up last evening. Well, the fgen band did pop over CR and produced a solid 0.39". I'm pretty happy.
  6. Local retired met Terry Swails likes to say, "When it drought, signs of precipitation don't pan out". The RRFS was one of the few models showing any decent rain here, but the latest run removed nearly all of it. The dewpoint is in the 40s, so I'm not surprised.
  7. Models have struggled to figure out this system. Some models show little or nothing here, while a couple suggest a decent fgen band could pop over us. I hope we get something because, as you say, it's right back into the dry abyss through 7-10 days.
  8. I barely got anything from the back-door front showers. Most locations didn't get much. It was cloudy all day, so the heating was limited.
  9. The long-range model ensembles are looking better after mid month.
  10. The final day of bubbly shower action finally brought a nice cell to my yard. I got gusty wind, pea-size hail, and a quick 0.27" of rain. I'll gladly take it.
  11. Mine will be, too. I'm watering my garden every day or two and I'm now watering the dry-sensitive parts of the lawn as well so it does not die.
  12. A decent cluster of cells popped even closer to me today, but I only received sprinkles. The two-day popcorn pattern produced 0.00".
  13. God I'm sick of seeing little to no rain on every Euro run, every day. It has been like this for two weeks. Even at the end of today's run there is no rain in sight. The heart of the rain and storm season is going down the toilet.
  14. Central Iowa got good rain this morning, but that complex lifted north. More storms have popped over there again, while there is nothing around here. Once again, today's Euro doesn't have a drop of rain here through day 10. A couple months ago I posted that I was glad to get rid of the la nina drought summers. I certainly didn't expect el nino would be worse.
  15. The dewpoint has jumped to 60º today, the highest it has been in a long time.
  16. We have a week of 90s coming up, accelerating the onset of drought.
  17. The temp very quickly rose into the 80s by midday, and peaked at 86, so it was pretty warm, but the low dew means as soon as the sun begins to set the temp drops and it feels amazing out there.
  18. My lawn has quickly lost its lushness and is beginning to brown.
  19. I hate the dry, but it is very pleasant.
  20. The models are a broken record. Every run is zero rain through ten days. The latest Euro drops the dewpoint into the 20s Thursday, then remains in the 30s for a few days and then 40s.
  21. I received 0.02" of rain overnight. The latest Euro doesn't have a drop of rain falling here for the next ten days. Plus, the temp is expected to approach 90º next week. Ugh.
  22. The weather is great for planting the garden, but the rest of the month looks extremely dry. I hope the dry, blocked-up pattern does not continue into June.
  23. 1.17" in my gauge this morning. Despite all the noise from the storms overnight, I got very little heavy rain from it. Fortunately, the MCS produced a big rain shield that soaked the ground for several hours. It was needed.
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