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  1. hawkeye_wx
    The morning models have sped up the front and are now firing the storms farther south. The UK and Euro now have nothing here. The CAMs fire the storms just barely in time.
  2. hawkeye_wx
    My storm total is 2.38". I was just hoping to get over an inch, but this morning's disturbance really perked up. My total is even lower than many others in the area. Over 3" fell only a couple miles to my south.
  3. hawkeye_wx
    1.83" here so far this morning. That's great, but I sure would love some good ol' noisy thunderstorms. I've had about 6 inches of rain this month, but barely any thunder at all. There is zero thunder this morning.
  4. hawkeye_wx
    That first line did crap out just before reaching me. The second line mostly passed south. However, more rain filled in through this morning and many places have received 1+". I am well over an inch now. Once again, there has been little to no thunder.
  5. hawkeye_wx
    The year's first organized line of strong storms is approaching my area tonight. I didn't think they'd sag far enough south, but it may happen.
  6. hawkeye_wx
    I think they should keep advisories. They are simple and they work. You can see the colored advisory area on the map. I filled out the survey.
  7. hawkeye_wx
    Clouds and showers held us down in the mid 70s today. Unfortunately, the lack of instability led to this evening's rain/storms crapping out.
  8. hawkeye_wx
    I picked up almost a half inch of rain this morning from the bubbly remnants of the central/western Iowa convection. There were a couple rumbles, but that's it. The vast majority of our rain this year has been thunder-less. Models are still pretty bullish in general through tomorrow, but it should also be a bit hit-n-miss.
  9. hawkeye_wx
    Thursday night into Saturday looks to be the first real MCS action of the season across Iowa.
  10. hawkeye_wx
    My final 2-day rain total is 3.04".
  11. hawkeye_wx
    The temp over here is falling into the low 60s this afternoon. The dew is falling into the 50s. It's pretty refreshing.
  12. hawkeye_wx
    A line of very heavy rain just lifted north through the Cedar Rapids area. I picked up a quick 0.42" as the line was initially popping up over me. The far north side of the city received up to 1.5" in <30 minutes.
  13. hawkeye_wx
    The Euro is now showing a very boring pattern as an upper low cuts off and parks over the eastern lakes. Today/tomorrow may be the only rain for the next ten days.
  14. hawkeye_wx
    There were heavy cells dancing all over the area yesterday and overnight, but they all missed me again. My rain total is only 0.18", most of which came from a weakening band of general rain overnight.
  15. hawkeye_wx
    18 straight minutes of 60 mph wind gusts at Davenport.
  16. hawkeye_wx
    Yeah, I'm not looking for 5" of rain or damaging hail or a tornado. A solid thunderstorm that drops 1" of rain would be great.
  17. hawkeye_wx
    A few minutes of hail was fun to watch, but what I want is heavy rain (with some nice lightning/thunder). I love heavy rain as much as I love heavy snow. The storm that dropped that hail on April 7th only dropped 0.09" of rain. At some point this season we'll get a real heavy downpour that lasts more than a few minutes, but it just hasn't happened yet.
  18. hawkeye_wx
    The Euro is much farther nw with the Cristobal low this run. Models are really deepening the system somewhere in the lakes region. No doubt the track will flop around many times as the system hangs out down in the tropics for the next few days.
  19. hawkeye_wx
    Meanwhile, two lines of storms both crapped out on/skipped over me overnight, leaving me with only 0.19" of rain. It's not our year, apparently.
  20. hawkeye_wx
    91/68 in Cedar Rapids last hour (90 this hour), the first 90º day since last July.
  21. hawkeye_wx
    It's easy to see who has been dumped on and who hasn't over the last month or two. Chicago through Michigan has been bulls-eyed. Many of the rest of of us, not so much. There is certainly no drought, but some widespread MCS action from the plains into MN/IA would be nice.
  22. hawkeye_wx
    I know you guys in Illinois have gotten walloped by rain systems this spring, but we haven't. We could use a good soaker today. A week from now, when Cristobal lifts through the central US, we will really need a soaker.
  23. hawkeye_wx
    I hope the remnants of Cristobal can track northward enough to drop some good rain here. It's too rare. You guys farther east in the subforum get this kind of thing much more often. The GFS brings it up across Iowa, but the Euro veers it east into the Ohio Valley/eastern Lakes.
  24. hawkeye_wx
    It could get rather dry around here by next week. We've already received below avg May precip. Now the Euro keeps spitting out bone dry runs.
  25. hawkeye_wx
    Next week is looking hot and humid over here. While the northeast US gets stuck under another cool trough, a strong ridge builds into the central US.
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