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  1. hawkeye_wx
    This is going to be wild. Two hurricanes right next to each other off the southeast US coast? I've been tracking the tropics since the late 1980s and I can't remember anything like this.
  2. hawkeye_wx
    A nice line of storms moved southward through central and eastern Iowa last evening. It produced what may have been the best light show of the year. I finished with 0.66" of rain, a welcome soak. The solid storm a week ago and the one last night have re-greened the lawns a bit. My September rain total is 1.29".
  3. hawkeye_wx
    GOES is having trouble today. It has been almost two hours since the satellite data has updated.
  4. hawkeye_wx
    I'm curious to know why we have three recon planes flying all the way out to a tropical storm in the middle of the ocean, which isn't going to affect any land.
  5. hawkeye_wx
    Gabrielle is getting its act together today. Recon shows the pressure down to 997 mb. The wind has not caught up, yet.
  6. hawkeye_wx
    Ugh. The early to mid next week system is now expected to pass well south of Iowa, so models have really dried up through ten days again, and that's after barely getting anything the last couple days. The ensemble averages have been too optimistic with their prediction of a wetter pattern.
  7. hawkeye_wx
    It was looking like nothing would make it into Cedar Rapids today, but a storm cluster to the west tonight built eastward and gave us a very solid storm. I finished with a badly-needed 0.39".
  8. hawkeye_wx
    The models are trending up with rain over the next couple weeks. Some runs are showing a series of slow-moving lows moving across the upper midwest.
  9. hawkeye_wx
    I'm not looking forward to the upcoming heat and continued extreme dryness. I may have to run the sprinkler because the lawn is turning brown, which I would never have thought might happen a month ago when everything was wet and lush. The weather has been generally pleasant, but the combination of the US pattern and the dead tropics continues to be incredibly boring.
  10. hawkeye_wx
    The active MCS pattern we had in mid summer feels like ages ago. We needed a break, but it has been way too long.
  11. hawkeye_wx
    It has been 2.5 weeks without rain. The lawns have de-greened quite a bit. We could use a good soak again.
  12. hawkeye_wx
    June was boring, but the last several weeks have been one of our most interesting summer stretches in years. The recent break has been nice, although it has remained somewhat humid. That is finally over at about 9am this morning when the strong front moves through.
  13. hawkeye_wx
    90/80 here in Cedar Rapids. This is as hot as it has been all summer.
  14. hawkeye_wx
    I got yet another 1.44" of rain from this storm. This was expected to be a totally dry week. My August total is up to 4.32". Over the last six weeks my total is nearly 13 inches.
  15. hawkeye_wx
    Models did a terrible job forecasting this. The HRRR literally had nothing making it to eastern Iowa only a few hours ago. The RRFS had something small passing across northeast Iowa.
  16. hawkeye_wx
    Holy cow, what a storm! This reminds me of the derecho. It briefly poured half-inch size hail, then 70 mph wind blasted through. I couldn't even see the houses across the street. Thankfully, our hail was only half-inch size. A spotter only a mile away reported ping-pong ball size.
  17. hawkeye_wx
    For the last six weeks, we have gotten everything. Today was a nothingburger, but the storms have way outperformed the model forecast. It is dark as night right now as the storms move in.
  18. hawkeye_wx
    Another MCS rolled through eastern Iowa overnight. I received 0.82". My six-week total is about 11.5". It is very green around here.
  19. hawkeye_wx
    The heavy rain band filled in at the last minute this morning and dumped 1.5-3" across the Cedar Rapids area. I finished with 1.94". This was a massive bust for southern Iowa. Instead of 3-5", as forecasted by the WPC, they got nothing.
  20. hawkeye_wx
    The WPC has a moderate chance for excessive rainfall across southeast Iowa, nw Illinois, and southern Wisconsin this weekend. The forecast has widespread 3-5+ inches across that area. The discussion even mentions isolated 9" totals are possible. DVN thinks 10" is possible.
  21. hawkeye_wx
    After a brief respite, models are hitting Iowa with another wet period starting this weekend.
  22. hawkeye_wx
    1.18" should be my final total. My July total is 8.54", almost the same as last July. The plants and lawns are very lush.
  23. hawkeye_wx
    I got 1.11" of rain overnight from a couple lines. Nothing too strong, but there was some solid lightning/thunder. The global models did not handle this system very well.
  24. hawkeye_wx
    The sirens went off at 2am here for severe wind, but it only reached about 50 mph. The line was also racing through, so we only got 0.33" of rain. Since mid month we've been very active, but we are only getting small amounts from each event.
  25. hawkeye_wx
    2000z severe update
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