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  1. hawkeye_wx
    I was going to mention this. Models had it moving northeastward this morning, but instead it's moving southeastward.
  2. hawkeye_wx
    The Euro is trending toward sticking this energy over the Yucatan for 2-3 days, limiting its potential.
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    Surprisingly, Cedar Rapids did not hit 100º today.
  4. hawkeye_wx
    The new Euro is similar to the last few... the system spins around in the far nw Caribbean for a couple days, but doesn't organize much. It only revs up once it's shooting northeast in the eastern gulf.
  5. hawkeye_wx
    Cedar Rapids has stalled at 95º over the last hour. Combined with a lower dew point, the heat index is 12º less than at this time yesterday.
  6. hawkeye_wx
    Cedar Rapids is 2º ahead of yesterday (we hit 100º) and the dew point is several degrees lower than yesterday, so I'd say 100º should be easy to hit today.
  7. hawkeye_wx
    The Euro continues to meander some 500 mb vorticity just off the Yucatan coast over the weekend. Even though it also shows an upper ridge centered over that area, it struggles to develop anything until the energy lifts into the gulf.
  8. hawkeye_wx
    I wasn't sure Cedar Rapids would be able to hit 100º, but we did it. I am a bit disappointed the dew maxed at 79º.
  9. hawkeye_wx
    Models largely had this thing nailed a few days ago when they showed it finally organizing and tightening at the very last second before landfall. If Harold looked like this 24 hours ago, we'd be talking about a much more significant system.
  10. hawkeye_wx
    It was never able to align. The convection continues to be elongated and displaced north of the surface center. The overnight recon struggled to even close off a low center.
  11. hawkeye_wx
    We'll have to wait and see what recon finds for wind direction in the other quadrants, but it seems likely we'll have TS Franklin at 5pm.
  12. hawkeye_wx
    The morning visible loop shows that 90L has developed a closed circulation. There is some shear, so convection is trying to hold onto the east side of the center.
  13. hawkeye_wx
    By the end of the month, the average-wet first half of August will be a distant memory. There is little, if any, rain in sight.
  14. hawkeye_wx
    The Euro is showing a temp well into the 90s with a dewpoint of 80 next week across eastern Iowa.
  15. hawkeye_wx
    The front popped just in time to drop 0.25" early this morning. That should be it for rain until late in the month.
  16. hawkeye_wx
    Models had been teasing a line of rain early Friday morning, but not necessarily very robust. Instead, a good hour of thunderstorms dropped 0.96" on my yard, the best rain event since June 24th, which is when the drought really began in earnest. My August rain total is now 1.71, more than all of July. It's good we got the rain this morning because it appears the strong Sunday system may produce the good rain north of Iowa where the best dynamics are and south of Iowa where the best moisture is.
  17. hawkeye_wx
    Yes, they did. It tracked pretty far south and it was not the widespread heavy rain event that was expected. It did not help that there was no heat/instability in Iowa Sunday. I actually finished with a solid 0.72", better than most spots around here. It was a slow soak, too, so probably better than a quick 1+" from a thunderstorm.
  18. hawkeye_wx
    Maybe, maybe not. The NAM has shifted all the rain into western and southern Iowa, with nothing here at all. I pray that is overdone.
  19. hawkeye_wx
    All models have now shifted well south with the main low Sunday through Monday. I'm actually beginning to get excited for a potential much-needed heavy rain event.
  20. hawkeye_wx
    Some models have been dumping good rain on southern Wisconsin as the main low moves through. Now, however, the short-range models are trending so far south that northeast IA, southern WI, and northern IL get nothing.
  21. hawkeye_wx
    A band of 4-8 inches of rain has fallen overnight from far northeast Missouri to Burlington, IA.
  22. hawkeye_wx
    The Euro has latched onto the possible heavy rain swath through IL/IN Friday night/Saturday.
  23. hawkeye_wx
    The 12z Euro has gone slower and south with the strong wave.
  24. hawkeye_wx
    There is a disturbance in southeast Nebraska. Several models are now moving that eastward and laying down a swath of heavy rain in northern MO and southern IA and into Illinois. A few models continue it east or even southeast through Illinois while a few turn it east-northeast toward Chicago. I likely won't see a drop before Sunday. Models are split on whether my area will get anything at all this weekend. It's possible the main shortwave and front will pass east of me before storms blow up Sunday.
  25. hawkeye_wx
    I think the idea is the beetle larvae feed on turf roots, so when the weather is wet and the turf is lush, beetles thrive, but then during drought, when everything is baked and brown, there is very little for the larvae to eat so they die out.
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