***Official 2024 Weather Thread***

[BigJCy]

 

[wxman1]

 

[Hoggins]

Dog days are here and I hate it. Bring on football and fall weather

 

[Pope]

This is State Fair weather. Come on thunderstorms!

 

[theshadow]

Heat indices of 100+ in Ames during Change Places Week. Sounds about right.

 

[ClonerJams]

The tornado sirens are going off in Ankeny. Is this a mistake?

 

[cyclonespiker33]

The tornado sirens are going off in Ankeny. Is this a mistake?

Looks like there is a tornado near Mitchellville. Shouldn't be a threat to the metro

 

[SaraV]

The tornado sirens are going off in Ankeny. Is this a mistake?

Radar is showing the tornadic activity closer to Colfax/Prairie City now....although it looks like it started in Mitchellville.

 

[Letterkenny]

The tornado sirens are going off in Ankeny. Is this a mistake?

Yeah WTF. Went off in Johnston too. Nothin happening here at all. Barely a breeze at all. I turn the radar on expecting something big to be coming and there is a storm near Mitchellville, already way past the metro. Why blare the sirens in places where the storm is clearly 15-20 miles East and is moving away? Just because the "warning" caught a tiny sliver of the county?

 

[Pope]

Yeah WTF. Went off in Johnston too. Nothin happening here at all. Barely a breeze at all. I turn the radar on expecting something big to be coming and there is a storm near Mitchellville, already way past the metro. Why blare the sirens in places where the storm is clearly 15-20 miles East and is moving away? Just because the "warning" caught a tiny sliver of the county?

I was thinking the same thing. The Ankeny sirens seem to go off much more frequently than they used to that I worry folks may not take them as seriously when a real tornado is bearing down on us.

 

[1SEIACLONE]

Had 1.5 inches in our gauge here in N. Ames, we had some decent straight line winds during the storm. Lots of lightening towards the North, but no longer raining here in Ames.

 

[NWICY]

A much needed 2.3 finally fell today. We will take it.

 

[nfrine]

3.5" in the rain gauge. 30 miles east of Ames.

 

[Cyclonepride]

3.5" in the rain gauge. 30 miles east of Ames.

Been up since 2 with the pups, just checked ours and coming in at 4" in Indianola.

 

[Turn2]

Less than one quarter inch of rain with over two inches of thunder and another town’s tornado sirens but no wind here. Getting ready for a week of Iowa midsummer stank.

 

[Agclone91]

Right at an inch in West Ames. A lot of corn was made with that rain.

 

[Cy83ag]

Right at an inch in West Ames. A lot of corn was made with that rain.

Looks like Chicago agrees with you.

 

[cycloner29]

Dayton got 5" and Ackworth, 4.8" according to Megan on WHO-TV this morning.

I need to work an issue out with my neighbor whose 10' long black tile tube they have off their downspout that they have so graciously placed it so it points about a foot straight into my yard.

 

[Kinch]

3 inches in SE iowa

 

[NWICY]

Dayton got 5" and Ackworth, 4.8" according to Megan on WHO-TV this morning.

I need to work an issue out with my neighbor whose 10' long black tile tube they have off their downspout that they have so graciously placed it so it points about a foot straight into my yard.

Go to escalation mode, patio block wall with stone in front to prevent erosion on your side and send it right back into their yard.