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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.

The latest Euro has a 984 mb storm hitting the big island first thing Sunday morning.

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.

The gulf system certainly has the appearance of a disturbance that is destined to become a tropical storm before moving into Texas.

My dew is down to 55º.

I just checked the radar loop from that day. The cap clearly did not break.

Wow! It was 62º here. I had no idea it was supposed to be cold in northern Iowa.

Several models were right that this system would split around east-central Iowa. I only received 0.09".

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.

Wow, now a report of baseball hail in Walford, just sw of Cedar Rapids.

Three more small towns just sw of Cedar Rapids just reported golfball size hail.

The cell along the outflow boundary, just west of Cedar Rapids, recently dropped golfball size hail. It will pass sw of CR.