Southeast Iowa at the Bloomfield Municipal Airport about 20 minutes ago.
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The field is an absolute mess right now with the rain Indianola has had. Already cancelled for tonight just because of the field conditions.
Balloons have had 8 chances to go up so far, and 7 have been cancelled.
I think it fully stopped and restarted storming in Ankeny today 6 different times, at least. Finally now appearing to be out of it until late tonight. Got heavy winds, heavy rains, severe thunder/lightning, spats of hail, the whole works today.
I was going to say I think last night was the only time they have been up right?
I know a balloonist and she is convinced it is getting windier around here.
Can any of our career meteorologists enlighten us on this? Reed Timmer is calling it a “wind bag event” on Twitter, and it does seem like the storms that keep coming through are on some sort of conveyer belt hitting the same areas repeatedly.
Wind bags are what tornado chasers call storms that aren’t going to produce tornadoes, just straight winds.
…and running parallel to a stationary boundary insuring the paths of successive storms don’t vary much.
The nonstop lightning in Ankeny right now is insane. Looks like it could be a long night of weather.
It reached a massive peak of lightning/thunder right about 2am. Nonstop, loud thunder matched to piercing strokes for a solid 30 minutes straight. Holy crap.
Cyclonepride
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Very moist. Usually, that's a good thing.
Cyclonepride
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Luckily it hasn't (though my sump pump died and I had to tear out the carpet a few weeks ago)
Yeah that was insane, had to have been the most constant barrage of thunder/lightning I ever recall hearing/seeing. My kids slept right thru it, I wasn't so lucky.
