May 2013. I remember because I got married that weekend, it was 80 degrees when I drove home on Wednesday, and Thursday morning there was sleet/snow. The wedding was supposed to be outdoors at a local winery; luckily we were able to roll with it and do the whole thing indoors.
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I reminded my husband of that one and April 1997!
We also received quite a bit of snow the first part of April last year.
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Holes have been there for a few years, just haven’t had water in them very often in the last couple years.
This is supposed to be a Taco Bell in Winchester. Conflicting reports but last night said there were 4 fatalities from this. Just the menu board standing. Hit a mobile home park as well, lots of injuries.
6-10 day and 8-14 day forecasts from NWS is for cooler temps and wet.
Rain would be fine.
Rain would be fine.
Had to know the weather would probably get worse once we expect it to get nice.
0.5" wouldn't be a nuisance. If we were to receive enough rain in the next 10 days to take us out of "drought" status we would be in trouble. It would take many weeks of regular rains to effectively reverse the issues we have. 8" of rain in a week would look good on paper but very little would make it to the subsoil.
GFS on Skip Talbot's models for the last few days have been painting a bullseye on Iowa for precip be it rain or snow. Seems the NWS in their discussions are picking up on that. Interesting to see if any of this comes to fruition. Even Weatherstreet is agreeing and some of the totals are quite substantial.
Sorry if it came across as cynical, but it gets tiring to hear of "ATMOSPHERIC RIVERS!" and "Some people could pick up..." over and over and then under-perform the forecast every time.
Right, I keep telling my wife that .5" is in many ways better than 8". I just can't get her to understand though.
No problem. You are correct, and the reason I didn't post anything a few days ago when weatherstreet was putting almost 3 feet of snow from western into southern Iowa. While the totals have gone down some, and have moved from model to model.....they seem fairly certain something significant is going to happen in and around Iowa the first of next week. Even the NWS in Des Moines has picked up on it.
Of course now watch.........it will be sunny and in the 70's.
