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NWS just issued a warning for Cedar Rapids, even with the line two counties away.
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This should be interesting, at the very least. I'm just dreading the damage that will be done to my garden. This line is really racing eastward.
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Once again, rain/storms failed to fire here today. Now, we either get something Monday or it'll be another week without rain. I've only received a half inch over the last month.
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While I'd like to see some good action during the day now and then, I love overnight thunderstorms. This summer, we are not getting much of either. It is getting very dry over here.
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I can't recall even one overnight MCS this summer. Most summers we get much of our rain overnight.
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It was a great week of weather. Unfortunately, the rain chances continue to dry up.
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It's 1pm... Temp: 69º Dew: 49º Awesome!
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The abnormal dryness has expanded into eastern Iowa. I received 3 inches of rain in July, but much of that came during the first half of the month. The lawns are browning.
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Cedar Rapids officially hit 90º today, number four this summer.
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Not a single drop of rain here. Models are showing little, if any, rain for the next 7+ days.
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Another heat wave that looked significant when 7+ days away, but turns into two days when Cedar Rapids might hit 90º.
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The latest Euro has a 984 mb storm hitting the big island first thing Sunday morning.
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Obviously, it's a long way out, but this morning's Euro has a modest system traversing the Caribbean, then it begins to turn more nw and strengthen at the end of the period as the eastern US trough erodes the subtropical ridge.
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The gulf system certainly has the appearance of a disturbance that is destined to become a tropical storm before moving into Texas.
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My dew is down to 55º.
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The morning and late-afternoon clouds held the temp below the expected high temp around here. It's mid July and today was long expected to be a particularly hot day, and we still struggle to climb above 90º.
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I just checked the radar loop from that day. The cap clearly did not break.
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I prefer 90/80 over 100/60. High dew is more interesting than high temp. I don't want to spend all day in the sauna, but I do like to go outside once in a while to warm up. An 80º dew feels good for 5-10 minutes. I still remember the day in 1995 when Cedar Rapids hit 100º with an 86º dew (heat index 131º).
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Wow! It was 62º here. I had no idea it was supposed to be cold in northern Iowa.
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Several models were right that this system would split around east-central Iowa. I only received 0.09".
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My power just came back on. I actually got off easy. There are severe wind reports from the north and east sides of CR, but at my house on the west side it was probably 50 mph. I also got a bit of pea size hail. The line pushed through quickly, so I only received 0.42" of rain. I finally got a solid storm with thunder and lightning, although the thunder was pretty muted with no cracks at all.
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Wow, now a report of baseball hail in Walford, just sw of Cedar Rapids.
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Three more small towns just sw of Cedar Rapids just reported golfball size hail.
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The cell along the outflow boundary, just west of Cedar Rapids, recently dropped golfball size hail. It will pass sw of CR.
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This is the first time I've ever heard of "lime" size hail.
