For a moment, I couldn't understand what the problem was...
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My rain gauge in NW Ankeny shows we got 2.1 inches overnight and my yard is full of tree branches. This is nuts!
I wish it had waited until today so we wouldn't have the 110 degree heat index, plus I could have slept better last night!
I wish it had waited until today so we wouldn't have the 110 degree heat index, plus I could have slept better last night!
away on a work trip and got the alerts of an outage. very thankful the power came back before the heat really started rolling in, got a cat and a deep freeze that really would not have liked having no power today.
I did look at the KCCI app's radar last night and was expecting at least some rain here in Ames anywhere from 12:30- 3. We did have rain, a little lightning and thunder, but apparently not enough to keep me awake. Rain gauge showed 0.7 inches before 7 this morning, and humid as all get out even with temperature below 70 at the time
KCCI TV said central Iowa could get some rain last night, but they underestimated the amount. They are calling for northern Iowa to get dumped on again late tonight and pretty much all of central Iowa get dumped on late Tuesday night.
Yeah, last I saw was "isolated showers" around Des Moines. We got about 3 straight hours of on-off deluge and steady rain with lightning, thunder and wind.
Wow, I guess we lucked out in Ames. Looked like the storms were moving mostly North to South so I'm surprised Ankeny got hit that much harder. We had about 0.6" and some wind, but nothing I would consider notable.
Wasn't that the storm we just got? I thought that one was the one being talked about as a derecho
This is a new update from Midwest Weather -- he talked about a derecho a few days ago, but I think the possible path is much more to the south than thought earlier.
I don't think so, I just saw a storm chaser talking about it for today
This guy is probably under 50 or close thereabouts. But yeah, I thought it was odd but I hadn't realized he quit mowing partway, thought he was done. Realized a few minutes later the lawn wasn't done.
MN version of your IA evening storms mostly went north (early) and south (later) in the central metro. Wind gusts hit 61 mph at NWS station nearest me but was brief. With another electrical power stutter I was thinking power outage again but it stayed on. Some weirdly random, almost solo, hail hit the roof. "Only" an inch of rain, by summer 2025 standards that is light sprinkles.
I saw Chris Kuball post yesterday afternoon and he was spot on. Said the severe threat would diminish for central Iowa but storms would move in after 1. Had a futurecast map showing exactly what happened.
KCCI is at the bottom on forecasting between all the news stations in central Iowa imo.
Sounds like it will be the worst in NW Iowa. Hoping this avoids the metro or is at least very weak by the time it gets here
