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hawkeye_wx

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  1. A new recon plane is on the way, should be there when the center emerges into the gulf.
  2. Radar shows the center of the eye just reached the Cuban coast at 7pm EDT.
  3. SPC has much of northern Iowa in the enhanced severe area, but the decaying morning MCS has really put the kibosh on instability across the state. I'm afraid it may have ruined tonight storms.
  4. The GFS continues to forecast another storm will form in about the same location (Caribbean) once Ida moves inland.
  5. The GFS continues to focus on and develop the northern end of this wave earlier each run.
  6. The UK still tracks it over the Yucatan and delays the organization until the far nw gulf.
  7. The 12z GFS deepens this system by nearly 30 mb in 18 hours Sunday over the central gulf, and 45 mb in 30 hours.
  8. I picked up another 0.20" from a stationary area of rain this morning. A heavy cell parked over the county just sw of Cedar Rapids and dropped 3-4" down there.
  9. The model trend is not just north, but also to develop it earlier near the Yucatan channel. For days models were showing a last-minute developer.
  10. I was in the screw zone for weeks, but I've been hit good three times in the last four days. I picked up another 1.07" this evening. The first line crapped out and dropped very little, but the second line really came through. Previous 7 weeks: 0.98" Last four days: 2.75" I could not have asked for more out of this pattern. My luck has flipped hard. Let's keep this going.
  11. There is no wind with this second line, just very heavy rain with some lightning/thunder (first line had none).
  12. Nice little bow moving into Cedar Rapids. The shelf cloud was pretty nice.
  13. It's very gusty behind the outflow boundary, but the storms are bit bubbly moving into CR.
  14. So the Euro has gone from Mexico to Texas and now Louisiana.
  15. Iowa's sloppy seconds for the win again.
  16. A nice line of storms sank southeast through eastern Iowa this morning. The rain rate wasn't super heavy, perhaps because it wasn't particularly warm and humid, but ninety minutes of steady to occasionally heavy rain dumped 1.13" on my yard. The driest part of the area got the most rain, so it worked out perfectly. Now we just need a few more of these south-sinking lines this week. It's possible the building heat could keep everything north.
  17. 17" of rain is insane. In my lifetime I think about 7" is the most Cedar Rapids has received (and that was at least several hours). It has been thirteen years since our last 5" rain.
  18. The latest recon dropsonde measured 988 mb, so no change. Maybe the new convective blowup can get the pressure down a couple mb.
  19. Officially 988 mb, per dropsonde.
  20. The GFS, Canadian, and Euro all show a tropical cyclone in the western gulf at the end of the month. That's pretty good agreement considering it's still over a week out.
  21. Ironically, just as they upgrade it to hurricane the core convection craps out.
  22. The storms dropped 0.56" of rain here overnight. Normally that wouldn't be a big deal, but I haven't had a solid rain like this since June.
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