***Official 2024 Weather Thread***

[houjix]

Pea size hail around 2:15am in West Des Moines. Lots rain in the past 24hrs. Sump pump ran for the first time since we installed a new one in 2017.

 

[Cyclonepride]

Losing my good humor with this rain. I think as of yesterday, we’ve had 3 two day periods of 6” or so of rain this year, and it’s been going for a couple hours again tonight

 

[nfrine]

Losing my good humor with this rain. I think as of yesterday, we’ve had 3 two day periods of 6” or so of rain this year, and it’s been going for a couple hours again tonight

Very moist. Usually, that's a good thing.

 

[JEFF420]

Losing my good humor with this rain. I think as of yesterday, we’ve had 3 two day periods of 6” or so of rain this year, and it’s been going for a couple hours again tonight

well if your basement hasn't leaked by now... you are good to go!

 

[Cyclonepride]

well if your basement hasn't leaked by now... you are good to go!

Luckily it hasn't (though my sump pump died and I had to tear out the carpet a few weeks ago)

 

[Tailg8er]

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.

Yeah that was insane, had to have been the most constant barrage of thunder/lightning I ever recall hearing/seeing. My kids slept right thru it, I wasn't so lucky.

 

[Hoggins]

Man I feel bad for SE Iowa. They are getting pounded

 

[KidSilverhair]

Man I feel bad for SE Iowa. They are getting pounded

Is purple and dark blue bad? That’s bad, right?

 

[MJ29]

1.5 inches of rain in Grimes this morning.

 

[Cyclonepride]

Is purple and dark blue bad? That’s bad, right?

Our rain gauge has us at about 8-9" over the last three days in Indianola.

 

[isufbcurt]

How bad is tonight supposed to be? I plan on leaving tonight around 9:30 PM to head to a race that I have in Nebraska tomorrow. I don't want to drive through bad storms and I don't want to leave my mom alone at the house watching the animals with a big storm coming.

Trying to decide if I should go still tonight at 9:30 PM or leave at like 6 AM tomorrow.

 

[nfrine]

How bad is tonight supposed to be? I plan on leaving tonight around 9:30 PM to head to a race that I have in Nebraska tomorrow. I don't want to drive through bad storms and I don't want to leave my mom alone at the house watching the animals with a big storm coming.

Trying to decide if I should go still tonight at 9:30 PM or leave at like 6 AM tomorrow.

Morning.

 

[Turn2]

How bad is tonight supposed to be? I plan on leaving tonight around 9:30 PM to head to a race that I have in Nebraska tomorrow. I don't want to drive through bad storms and I don't want to leave my mom alone at the house watching the animals with a big storm coming.

Trying to decide if I should go still tonight at 9:30 PM or leave at like 6 AM tomorrow.

The Omaha-Des Moines severe activity looks to peak from late afternoon thru sunset. Storms could linger well into the night.

 

[houjix]

Is purple and dark blue bad? That’s bad, right?

I think we had 7"+ between the storms during the day and the two waves early this morning in WDM. Between 2-3am alone we got close to 4"+

 

[cydnote]

How bad is tonight supposed to be? I plan on leaving tonight around 9:30 PM to head to a race that I have in Nebraska tomorrow. I don't want to drive through bad storms and I don't want to leave my mom alone at the house watching the animals with a big storm coming.

Trying to decide if I should go still tonight at 9:30 PM or leave at like 6 AM tomorrow

Spend the day building an ark. Put the animals on the ark and make mom the captain. Leave tonight

 

[3TrueFans]

I'm supposed to pick my wife up at the airport at like midnight, god damnit.

 

[ackatch]

Well - I slept through last nights, once I shut the weather radio off. Wish they could just go off for tornado warnings. Oh well.

We're driving North tonight - going to try to make it to the in-laws before the storms get to them.

 

[Agclone91]

Well - I slept through last nights, once I shut the weather radio off. Wish they could just go off for tornado warnings. Oh well.

We're driving North tonight - going to try to make it to the in-laws before the storms get to them.

You can edit the alert types and counties that they alert for.

 

[Kinch]

2.5 inches in SE Iowa. Sump ran every 30 seconds for a while. We finished July with 8.2 inches.
UPDATE: MORE RAIN ON THE WAY.

 

[ackatch]

You can edit the alert types and counties that they alert for.

I can't find a way to do that one mine. I've got it filtered to Dallas County, but can't seem to figure out how to limit the alert types.