***Official 2024 Weather Thread***
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I'm in my office with the door closed as it's my first day back to work after discovering I had Covid last Thursday. I went out to fill my bottle, and was amazed at just how dark it is outside right now.
Lots of 50-55mph wind estimates and reports around the metro and one heck of a photogenic shelf cloud. This one is from my house in Norwalk.
There are likely a few spots that reached higher with some damage but it doesn't look like anything major widespread... thankfully.
I couldn't have one quiet day before vacation. yeesh!
There are likely a few spots that reached higher with some damage but it doesn't look like anything major widespread... thankfully.
I couldn't have one quiet day before vacation. yeesh!
I drove right into it this morning. Instantly dark and super windy. A few minutes later I couldn’t see the road anymore.
Southeast Iowa at the Bloomfield Municipal Airport about 20 minutes ago.
The field is an absolute mess right now with the rain Indianola has had. Already cancelled for tonight just because of the field conditions.
Balloons have had 8 chances to go up so far, and 7 have been cancelled.
I think it fully stopped and restarted storming in Ankeny today 6 different times, at least. Finally now appearing to be out of it until late tonight. Got heavy winds, heavy rains, severe thunder/lightning, spats of hail, the whole works today.
I was going to say I think last night was the only time they have been up right?
I know a balloonist and she is convinced it is getting windier around here.
Can any of our career meteorologists enlighten us on this? Reed Timmer is calling it a “wind bag event” on Twitter, and it does seem like the storms that keep coming through are on some sort of conveyer belt hitting the same areas repeatedly.
Wind bags are what tornado chasers call storms that aren’t going to produce tornadoes, just straight winds.
…and running parallel to a stationary boundary insuring the paths of successive storms don’t vary much.
The nonstop lightning in Ankeny right now is insane. Looks like it could be a long night of weather.
It reached a massive peak of lightning/thunder right about 2am. Nonstop, loud thunder matched to piercing strokes for a solid 30 minutes straight. Holy crap.
