Looks like another possible derecho event tonight

[Tenacious E]

It’s weird my weather app shows nothing but apparently the conditions are ripe for very bad things.

Iowa weather: Severe storm threat returns as heat continues

Severe storms return this evening and overnight. Find out the timing and the weather threats in your Storm Team 8 forecast.

www.kcci.com

 

[h-hawk]

I hope no one is getting flooded out but we are happy the areas north and south of the Des Moines area are getting lots of rain. The slough north of us has not been full in several years. We can do without the winds and hail however!

 

[HROT]

Yesterday, we had 3 separate hail events. That’s a new one

 

[QChawks]

I'm really tired of mowing

 

[HROT]

Can we speak to a manager about scheduling these storms during non-sleeping hours?

 

[HawkBall23]

Here I was thinking it was just supposed to be "upper-levels of hell on Earth" hot this week.

Missed the memo on the severe weather and/or conditions threats all day/night, every day/night too.

 

[jamesvanderwulf]

I'm really tired of mowing

I for one, think it's nice that Iowa still looking emerald green into August, instead of Arizona brown...

 

[DropitlikeitsHawk]

It’s weird my weather app shows nothing but apparently the conditions are ripe for very bad things.

Iowa weather: Severe storm threat returns as heat continues

Severe storms return this evening and overnight. Find out the timing and the weather threats in your Storm Team 8 forecast.

www.kcci.com

The weather channel app has been dog shit lately.

 

[Tenacious E]

I for one, think it's nice that Iowa still looking emerald green into August, instead of Arizona brown...

I like a nice green lawn through the 4th of july. I don't care as much with each subsequent day in July. Once August hits I am ready for it to scorch and go dormant.

 

[StormHawk42]

I like a nice green lawn through the 4th of july. I don't care as much with each subsequent day in July. Once August its I am ready for it to scorch and go dormant.

Yeah I’m thinking with receiving what… 5? inches of rain this week, I may pull in the hoses this weekend for the summer

 

[TC Nole OX]

 

[Kinnick.At.Night]

Can we speak to a manager about scheduling these storms during non-sleeping hours?

Agreed. It drives my wife crazy. She’ll probably be up watching the radar and listening to updates all damn night….which means I’ll be up as well. Ever since the 2020 derecho, she fears bad weather like a cat fears a bath.

 

[HawkBall23]

I like a nice green lawn through the 4th of july. I don't care as much with each subsequent day in July. Once August hits I am ready for it to scorch and go dormant.

 

[HawkBall23]

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Really looking forward to that hitting about midnight, more like 12:30-1a. (according to that guesstimate graphic)

👎

 

[The-Dude-Abides]

Yeah I’m thinking with receiving what… 5? inches of rain this week, I may pull in the hoses this weekend for the summer

I have a drip irrigation system for the garden, and I've had it in two whole times this year.

 

[Tenacious E]

I have a drip irrigation system for the garden, and I've had it in two whole times this year.

This would have been a helluva year to have planted tomatoes and watermelons.

 

[fredjr82]

I'm really tired of mowing

I picked the wrong year to raise my deck!

 

[The-Dude-Abides]

My weather radio alarm has gone off the last two nights in the wee hours. Looking forward to getting up in the middle of the night again to go watch a storm on the front porch like a good Midwesterner.

 

[The-Dude-Abides]

This would have been a helluva year to have planted tomatoes and watermelons.

Yep, tomatoes are loaded down about to turn ripe. Didn't do watermelons, but we have so many cucumbers and zucchini that I'm just throwing them to the chickens at this point.

 

[jasonrann]

 

[millah_22]

I'm really tired of mowing

 

[ICWestfan]

The Nutsedge is going crazy in my yard so I'll have to spray that. One good thing about a drought is the Nutsedge doesn't like dry yards.

 

[bagdropper]

Can we speak to a manager about scheduling these storms during non-sleeping hours?

Yep. Here in CR last night, sometime after 4am my gawd the thunder was loud. Yet somehow, my side of town got practically no rain at all.

But hell yeah...the drum solo was long and furious.

 

[bagdropper]

For us CR/IC folks per the QC NWS...

"The final concern tonight is flooding. The soils across the south
third of the area are saturated so any additional heavy rainfall
would cause either flash or areal flooding to occur. While the
ground in the highway 30 and Interstate 80 corridors is drier, high
rainfall rates may result in flooding in urban areas. For these
reasons the flood watch was extended further north."

DM area got 3+ if not more last night. Looks like tonight might be our turn.

And yeah, western and central Iowa might get a whole lot of wind with their rain. We might here too apparently, just less of a chance than west of us.

Could be quite the evening and night here in Iowa yet again.

 

[Funky Bunch]

 

[HawkBall23]

^ He said he doesn't think the chance of tornadoes is that great or even all that good in eastern Iowa, so that's happy news.

Ts & Ps for those in the areas that are more likely to possibly get tornadic activity this evening/tonight.

 

[lucas80]

Baseball sized hail west of the Twin Cities as the storm front takes shape.

 

[BlIIlken2]

This weather shit can **** off

 

[StormHawk42]

Had some pretty sweet clouds roll over us about 15 miles ahead of the storm. Should be here any minute.

 

[ButtersHawk]

Ju

This would have been a helluva year to have planted tomatoes and watermelons.

Canned 6 jars worth of diced tomatoes this week. Have 40 more ripening

 

[Colonoscopy]

This is mainly a wind threat and it's looking to peter out as it nears the Mississippi

 

[jonesy5960]

Agreed. It drives my wife crazy. She’ll probably be up watching the radar and listening to updates all damn night….which means I’ll be up as well. Ever since the 2020 derecho, she fears bad weather like a cat fears a bath.

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[StormHawk42]

Surprisingly hardly any rain. Crap ton of huge lightning though.

 

[HawkBall23]

This is mainly a wind threat and it's looking to peter out as it nears the Mississippi

 

[hydro2.0]

Over 200,000 ppl without power in Omaha.

 

[jonesy5960]

Over 200,000 ppl without power in Omaha.

So is that above average for them?

 

[Bank of Hawk]

Omaha got it

 

[mthawkeyes]

Omaha got it

The important question is whether Council Bluffs is still there.

 

[Tenacious E]

The important question is whether Council Bluffs is still there.

At some point if there is a god it should be sodom and gamorrahed.

 

[like-woahh]

This is the most wild summer of weather I've experienced in Des Moines since I moved here 10+ years ago.