***OFFICIAL 2026 WEATHER THREAD***
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3.5 inches in 45 minutes in West Ames. Trees and branches down everywhere, looks like a microburst.
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I live near Madison WI and it barely got to 80 and was forecast most of the day.
That's what the **** I'm talking about.
Lows in the 50s tomorrow night. Yes please.
We had a crazy east-west gust in Johnston around 7:30 that blew my neighbor's tree over as I was standing on my porch watching. Then it calmed down like 2 minutes later.
I turned back to network for a minute and saw 75 mph gusts.
I’m in a beaverdale brick type neighborhood lined with very mature birch trees. So I’m expecting a power outage at some point.
Just because you weren’t outside doesn’t make it not bad outside, lol. What?
Kinda weird how the storm in central Iowa is headed due SE. That seems unusual.
Cell over Ames dubbed as a Blue Core Supercell by Reed Timmer.
Cyclonepride
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So far it has been weird in Indianola. Saw the bulk of the initial storm looking NASTY just to our east, and lost some sizeable limbs as the air sucked into the storm.
West Ames north of Ontario - we got 2.8. Winds started to remind me of the derecho, but nothing blown down or out of place here.
Boone (Language warning but not as much as I would have said)
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Dude let go of the containers? He was almost there
Cyclonepride
Thought Police
Very few trees down in N. Ames, but there are not a lot of mature tree up here. Most are less than 10 years old in our part of Ames.
Based on that wind gust I don't think he let go of them so much as they were ripped from his grasp. He would have made it if he hasn't been screwing around with closing the lids
Well after all that rain and it seems like quite a lot of wind, not only is my neighbor's tree still standing (and not on my roof), but my sump pump has successfully kept 2-4 inches of water out of my basement this time. Safe for now...
NE Ankeny trained spotter says 3.91"
