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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.
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A lot of cells are popping over northern Iowa, extending down this morning's outflow boundary, just to my west.
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A severe storm with hail and wind passed just northeast of Cedar Rapids this morning. All I got was some nice outflow. The next batch should move southeast through the area later this afternoon and evening.
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The heaviest cells bypassed me, but I still managed to get some solid training and finish with 1.52" of rain. Once again, however, there was very little, very quiet thunder. This will go down as the year without lightning/thunder.
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The strong line over here has finally developed southward, extending to my sw. There is currently a warning for the county to my west. This is the best chance of an actual thunderstorm I've had in three months.
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I'm hopeful we can get something good this afternoon. If not strong/severe, at least something with thunder.
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At one point, around midday, every Iowa station listed on Mesonet was 90+, except Cedar Rapids was only 87º. As you say, though, CR finally did hit 90º.
