***Official 2024 Weather Thread***

[1UNI2ISU]

It rained hard and hailed in South Waterloo for like 2 minutes and then stopped

Pretty sure it didn't do any good.

 

[NWICY]

Saw lots of lightning to the South but nothing here.

 

[throwittoblythe]

Saw a huge bolt of lightning on my drive home last night north of Adel. A few miles later went by a field fire. Turns out the lightning started the fire…

 

[NoCreativity]

Nothing here in ankeny other than a light show

Yeah, total bust, they couldn't even predict 3 hours ahead of time.

I guess now we wait another week for any chance.

 

[wxman1]

1.14" at our house. looks like numerous reports of 1.5" on the west side of CR. Did not have to go very far north to get next to nothing though.

 

[Tailg8er]

Looks like one big rain chance next week, & it's on our trick-or-treat night.. Think the metro could change it to actually be on Halloween just this once?

 

[Clonehomer]

Looks like one big rain chance next week, & it's on our trick-or-treat night.. Think the metro could change it to actually be on Halloween just this once?

Don’t raise your kids soft. A cold rain during trick-or-treating is a rite of passage for children. This idea that ToTing needs to start before the sun goes down and ends at a certain time is ruining children’s upbringing. It ends when the candy is gone and everyone turns off their lights! If that’s midnight, so be it.

 

[ackatch]

Looks like one big rain chance next week, & it's on our trick-or-treat night.. Think the metro could change it to actually be on Halloween just this once?

LOL - Less than 0% chance of that happening.

 

[Entropy]

Don’t raise your kids soft. A cold rain during trick-or-treating is a rite of passage for children. This idea that ToTing needs to start before the sun goes down and ends at a certain time is ruining children’s upbringing. It ends when the candy is gone and everyone turns off their lights! If that’s midnight, so be it.

I remember trick or treating in a snow storm in N. WI in the early 90s.

 

[Clonehomer]

I remember trick or treating in a snow storm in N. WI in the early 90s.

Exactly. Back in my day, you chose your costume based on the weather in your region. In the Midwest, Chewbacca worked perfect.

The nasty weather years were the ones you remember because you had to work for your candy. And since all the soft kids stayed home, you got handfuls per house rather than a single piece.

 

[KidSilverhair]

I remember trick or treating in a snow storm in N. WI in the early 90s.

1991, I think, was a miserable Halloween - cold, sleeting. We took our 1 1/2 year old daughter to trick or treat at the mall, back when they still did that kind of thing. Unless I’m misremembering and it was 1992 … it was definitely one of those Halloweens.

 

[NetflixAndClone]

Exactly. Back in my day, you chose your costume based on the weather in your region. In the Midwest, Chewbacca worked perfect.

The nasty weather years were the ones you remember because you had to work for your candy. And since all the soft kids stayed home, you got handfuls per house rather than a single piece.

Growing up it was spiderman with a coat. stormtrooper with a coat, the scream murderer with a coat.

On weather news I got .65 of rain in my rain gauge in the twin cities.

 

[nrg4isu]

1991, I think, was a miserable Halloween - cold, sleeting. We took our 1 1/2 year old daughter to trick or treat at the mall, back when they still did that kind of thing. Unless I’m misremembering and it was 1992 … it was definitely one of those Halloweens.

Yup, I remember this one. Dark, cold, sleeting.

 

[mkadl]

1991, I think, was a miserable Halloween - cold, sleeting. We took our 1 1/2 year old daughter to trick or treat at the mall, back when they still did that kind of thing. Unless I’m misremembering and it was 1992 … it was definitely one of those Halloweens.

We had an ice storm that year on Halloween took down overhead cable tv wire, with all of the filters. Yes , I promptly removed all of my cable tv filters. (those filters stopped cinemax and HBO and other programming, if you didnt pay for it) guess I am a crook.

 

[mkadl]

Exactly. Back in my day, you chose your costume based on the weather in your region. In the Midwest, Chewbacca worked perfect.

The nasty weather years were the ones you remember because you had to work for your candy. And since all the soft kids stayed home, you got handfuls per house rather than a single piece.

Yes a hobo wearing coveralls and a hat with flaps worked nice also.

 

[Tailg8er]

LOL - Less than 0% chance of that happening.

Oh I know, more wishful thinking than anything.

Don’t raise your kids soft. A cold rain during trick-or-treating is a rite of passage for children. This idea that ToTing needs to start before the sun goes down and ends at a certain time is ruining children’s upbringing. It ends when the candy is gone and everyone turns off their lights! If that’s midnight, so be it.

I'm not worried about my kids, I just don't want to walk around in cold rain lol. I agree, it's good for them - guess dad will just need an extra layer of the liquid coat.

 

[Entropy]

1991, I think, was a miserable Halloween - cold, sleeting. We took our 1 1/2 year old daughter to trick or treat at the mall, back when they still did that kind of thing. Unless I’m misremembering and it was 1992 … it was definitely one of those Halloweens.

Trick or treating in a snowmobile suit is a memorable experience.

 

[WhatchaGonnaDo]

Little over a half inch here last night in Minneapolis. Allergy symptoms are so much better now with the dust all knocked down.

 

[Cybone]

Need more hard freezes to kill the ragweed.

Kill…ALL..the ragweed. Freeze it, kill it with fire, don’t care how, must destroy the ragweed.

Sincerely, my allergies

 

[Kinch]

Lightning strike blamed for fire that destroyed historic southeast Iowa church

A historic church in southeast Iowa is deemed a total loss following a fire.

ktvo.com

Lightning strikes church