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My final July rain total is 0.58".

I can guarantee that Cyclone was not expecting to get 2" of rain this morning. The west end of the storms remained pretty robust and dropped south from LaCrosse to Dubuque to the QC.

The cloud shield from the morning Minnesota MCS did a good job of holding our temp down today, too.

Today marks the end of the heatwave that failed to match its potential. Local mets and the nws all forecasted 90+ for several days in a row, with mid 90s early this week and possibly upper 90s today. Instead, Cedar Rapids (officially) only hit 90º twice during the warm stretch, 92º last Saturday and only 90º today (of course, it was probably a couple degrees higher here in the city). Today was the only real humid day as the dewpoint hit 78º. Most days the dew has been in the 60s.

It appears 0.58" will be my rain total for July (drier than 2012) as models have pushed any rain into August. This pattern sucks... surge of heat -> capped, dry frontal passage -> cooler, but dry -> repeat, ad infinitum. We will never get any decent rain out of this pattern.

On July 23rd, I'm still sitting at 0.58" of rain for the month. Late next week is the next chance of rain.

The July 14th tornado outbreak ranks third in the Iowa record book.

The big line of storms split around Cedar Rapids last evening, so I only picked up 0.10". My July total is only 0.58", with no rain expected for the next 10+ days. Keep in mind, the WPC has had Cedar Rapids getting 3+" of rain twice this month, but combined I've only received 0.58".

It appears likely Cedar Rapids is going to get absolutely nothing tonight as storms pass north and south. Un f'ing believable.

The Benton county storm is lifting a bit north as it moves east, so it's out of the picture for Cedar Rapids. If I'm going to get anything, it'll have to be from the west.

This morning's storms mostly split around me. The initial strong line barely wet the ground. A trailing cell got me up to 0.24". I need tonight's action to perform well.

It continues to be very cool here, but we're not getting much rain out of it... only a couple hundredths today.

I've only received 0.13" out of this turd.

This event is a total bust over here. As usual, if the first MCS misses south you are done, because nearly all future action will be south as well. This is what happened two weeks ago and it's happening again. Most models have major trouble figuring this out and end up painting big rain totals way too far north.

A golfball+ hailstorm just moved through the Des Moines area.

How would you like to live in a town where your garden can get zapped by cold in the middle of July? Ugh.

The radar presentation has really crapped out over the last hour.

The GFS is well south with the heavy stuff. The other globals track it across Iowa. That is how it was before the big event two weeks ago as well.

The 12z GFS is, ironically, much weaker through the Caribbean than previous runs.

The first recon mission is finished.

New center dropsonde says it's still only ~1003 mb.

DVN FINALLY just issued a flash flood warning for Marion.

There continues to be some scattered cells in my area. The rain is isolated, but quite heavy. Fortunately, I am one of the lucky few. I received 0.67" from a line that popped over me this evening and drifted north of Cedar Rapids. Then the line stalled and sagged back south and dropped another 1.25" in my yard tonight. My daily total is 2.05". Meanwhile, there is a personal station 1.4 miles to my south that has only received 0.08". In the other direction (ne), Marion has been clobbered. There are stations going over 5 or even 6" tonight.

I got a nice surprise this evening. A tiny cell popped right over my yard and barely moved for a while. I picked up a quick 0.67" to boost my multi-day event total to 0.87". Only a mile to my west and a mile to my south, nothing fell this evening.