***Official 2024 Weather Thread***

[TBT]

Brother-in-laws backyard is already completely flooded in Maxwell. Luckily they don't have a basement, already sandbagging and plastic bagging their shoes to get their cars to higher ground

 

[Clonefan32]

Based on how incredibly over dramatic our 2nd grader is with everything, I can only imagine the hell elementary teachers are having right now.

I have a kid that gets pretty anxious with weather and I'm kind of wishing I'd just kept him home today.

 

[Letterkenny]

People always do that, lol. Reminds me in 2013 when everyone said that. Think May had like 2 days without rain that year. Drought talk vanished in a hurry.

But the groundwater level is still 1/8" below normal. Severe drought.

 

[BCClone]

Yeah, pretty much pitch black out in Waukee.I can't see the green space at the property line, let alone the golf course.

It’s pitch black because you’re in the basement. It’s dirt you see.

 

[Pope]

Just heard the term "rain fog" for the first time. I guess that's wind blown rain which causes reduced visibility.

 

[ScottyP]

I'll be super pissed if our vehicles get hailed on. I just got wrecked a car in January and had to get a new one. I also had $2K in car repairs recently done on the other.

 

[cyfanatic]

 

[BCClone]

With 20” knocking on your door, I’m not sure how you can walk anymore…

It takes skill.

 

[Letterkenny]

Sirens go off just for heavy rain now?

 

[ScottyP]

Not sure how much more of this my basement can handle.

 

[JEFF420]

im sure none of your insurances will be going up 45% in 2025

 

[Bader]

Sirens go off just for heavy rain now?

Warning Sirens - Polk County Iowa

www.polkcountyiowa.gov

 

[bluestarcyclone]

Sirens go off just for heavy rain now?

Sirens going off for high wind isn't a new thing.

 

[BCClone]

But the groundwater level is still 1/8" below normal. Severe drought.

Just checked. Groundwater level from surface here is 3 feet now. Still moderate drought.

 

[CYEATHAWK]

In Urbandale have some wind......nothing that is bending the tree's. No hail and really not as much lightning and thunder that usually comes with this type of storm. But it is raining in sheets. Haven't seen it rain like this since late last June.

 

[Ms3r4ISU]

If you're driving in Ames, do not drive under the Grand Ave overpass. Friendly reminder.

 

[ackatch]

1.32" in about 20 minutes. At one point was coming down at 6"/hour. That was insane.

 

[Clonefan32]

Dark as night here south of Des Moines

 

[cycloner29]

If you're driving in Ames, do not drive under the Grand Ave overpass. Friendly reminder.

I avoid Grand Ave like the plague with the lane closures!

 

[ISUTex]

So, still in a drought, but too much rain, so now fields are flooding. But still in a drought. Got it.