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Check out the accumulated rainfall over the past 12 hours: Portions of north-central Iowa got hit with heavy rains once again, an area that certainly doesn’t need any more rain. I feel your frustration!
Forecast radar from 8 this morning to 7am Thursday:
Here is a look at the total rainfall from 8 this morning to midnight tonight:
Heading into Thursday, hit and miss storms mainly with daytime heat, then perhaps a better focus for scattered storms tomorrow night from far northern Kansas to central/east Nebraska and western Iowa. There will be plenty of instability in place with an approaching front enhancing uplift for storms to fire. I think the slight risk may get expanded into the circled area shown below. Best storm timing in this area will be 7pm-3am Thursday evening into Friday morning.
Total precipitation through Memorial Day: This shows the hit and miss nature of the activity. I do think the totals may be underdone in areas that get under storms today-Friday, where local 1″+ totals are possible. Slight uptick in those storm chances Thursday and Friday, then storm chances look lower for the weekend.
High temperatures over the next 4 day…continuing to go from warm to hot late week into the weekend:
Low temperatures over the next 4 days:
Dewpoints over the next 4 days:
Wind forecast over the next 4 days…Saturday looking to be our calmest wind day.
Weeks 1 and 2 temperatures from normal:
Weeks 1 and 2 precipitation from normal:
