***Official 2024 Weather Thread***

[CySki]

We live in Glynn Village behind Sugar Creek Golf. Seems like it’s been going right North or right South of us like 90% of storms do.

I live in Glynn Village too and my gauge is showing 0.09" since midnight.

 

[BCClone]

Drought monitor says you are lying.

Remember it takes months of this weather to break the drought posters said. I may be living in a tent in my roof by then. Since march 15, we are knocking on the door of 20 inches.

 

[CPG4ISU]

Something unsettling about this time is May 20-25 is known as "the week of the F5" for traditional tornado ally. Of the 9 F5s to hit the US since 2000, 4 of them happened between May 20-25. The other 4 all hit Dixie Ally on April 27, 2011, and then Greensburg on May, 4, 2007.

May 25, 2008: Parkersburg EF5
May 22, 2011: Joplin EF5
May 24, 2011: Peidmont EF5
May 20, 2013: Moore EF5

 

[FDWxMan]

Is there really enough difference between a baseball and tennis ball to necessitate a distinction?

Tennis ball is 2.5"
Baseball is 2.75"
Large appe is 3"

 

[dafarmer]

1.3”” in 20 minutes, wind but no hail. 1.8” since l12:30 A.M.

 

[awd4cy]

Remember it takes months of this weather to break the drought posters said. I may be living in a tent in my roof by then. Since march 15, we are knocking on the door of 20 inches.

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.

 

[cowgirl836]

Something unsettling about this time is May 20-25 is known as "the week of the F5" for traditional tornado ally. Of the 9 F5s to hit the US since 2000, 4 of them happened between May 20-25. The other 4 all hit Dixie Ally on April 27, 2011, and then Greensburg on May, 4, 2007.

May 25, 2008: Parkersburg EF5
May 22, 2011: Joplin EF5
May 24, 2011: Peidmont EF5
May 20, 2013: Moore EF5

I was just thinking through memories of how Memorial weekend sticks out as a time we tended to get nasty storms. That and county fair week in August. When was the tornado that hit Dunkerton in the 00s? That Pburg storm set dropped a spin up on our farm. There's another bad set sometime late 90s that I remember too.

Eta wrong city

 

[awd4cy]

Something unsettling about this time is May 20-25 is known as "the week of the F5" for traditional tornado ally. Of the 9 F5s to hit the US since 2000, 4 of them happened between May 20-25. The other 4 all hit Dixie Ally on April 27, 2011, and then Greensburg on May, 4, 2007.

May 25, 2008: Parkersburg EF5
May 22, 2011: Joplin EF5
May 24, 2011: Peidmont EF5
May 20, 2013: Moore EF5

Could be wrong, but I think the threat for very large tornadoes is pretty small. Straight line winds being the biggest threat and hail.

 

[CySki]

Sirens in Waukee...

 

[clone4life82]

I think there’s a good possibility schools will send kids home early. They don’t want to have kids on busses if storms are rolling through.

Waukee is talking about it. Sirens going off in ankeny

 

[cyfanatic]

 

[TBT]

 

[Pope]

Sirens going off in Ankeny. Here we go again.

 

[ackatch]

Starting to downpour here in SW Waukee (Painted Woods West neighborhood). Weather station .5"/hour rate right now.

 

[Jer]

Tennis ball is 2.5"
Baseball is 2.75"
Large appe is 3"

When you get to 1/4 inch increments, you really should have switched to the "it's not the size, it's how you use it" argument.

 

[Jer]

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

 

[clone4life82]

Remember it takes months of this weather to break the drought posters said. I may be living in a tent in my roof by then. Since march 15, we are knocking on the door of 20 inches.

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

 

[Jer]

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

 

[bluestarcyclone]

What a wonderful time to need to drive from Ankeny to the west side

 

[NorthCyd]

I had a dentist appointment at 9 in Ankeny and noped out of that. Honestly the main thing I was worried about was my vehicle sitting in an open lot and getting pummeled by hail.