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Nice little, tight core now... Nana for sure.

Nice tree, but way too big. The old tree was an Amur maple, which gets about 20 ft tall. I want the new tree to be about the same size.

Yep, the cells are now petering out, so very few locations will get anything from this.

I'd rather have a more general rain or garden variety light storm, anyway. This afternoon's cells would probably have produced more wind/hail than the small amount of rain was worth. I don't have my fence to shelter the plants anymore.

A big ol' goose egg here.

A broken line of cells has popped to my north and west. There is a warning out in central Iowa.

Last day of the heat wave, thankfully. You don't realize how important a backyard/patio shade tree is until it's gone.

Everything here looks like crap. The derecho shredded the trees and the drought is baking the lawns.

I actually did not get a lot from these two events. The April event dropped some decent pea to nickel hail, which was cool to see, but only 0.09" of rain. The July event was a solid storm, but it only dropped 0.42" of rain, and the damaging wind was on the north and east sides of CR and I'm on the west side.

Cuba radar shows the developing eyewall. Cuba radar I just got power back after ten days in the dark, following the historic Iowa derecho, so it's nice to be able to follow some tropical action again.

I just got power back Thursday morning, ten days after the storm. There are still 9k people in the CR area without power. My Mediacom tv/internet is still out (could be up to another week), but my neighbor has a different service, which is working, and she is letting me use her wifi. It has been a long couple weeks. I did a lot of tree cleanup in my yard and surrounding yards. It was exhausting, but there was nothing to do after dark so I got a lot of sleep. It was quite a storm, likely something I'll never see again. It was amazing how it just kept raging for 30-40 minutes. The worst damage I saw, as someone posted earlier in the thread, is in sw Cedar Rapids, a bit over a mile sw of my house, but everyone got hit. I'll post a few photos of my neighborhood when I get my fast internet connection back.

The wind just hit, limbs down.

NWS just issued a warning for Cedar Rapids, even with the line two counties away.

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.

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.

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.

I can't recall even one overnight MCS this summer. Most summers we get much of our rain overnight.

It was a great week of weather. Unfortunately, the rain chances continue to dry up.

It's 1pm... Temp: 69º Dew: 49º Awesome!

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.

Cedar Rapids officially hit 90º today, number four this summer.

Not a single drop of rain here. Models are showing little, if any, rain for the next 7+ days.

Another heat wave that looked significant when 7+ days away, but turns into two days when Cedar Rapids might hit 90º.