The Dirty is 77 and high winds when the sun goes under the clouds it's quite pleasant
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Lots of noise but not much rain in Mpls, front rolled through Twin Cities pretty quickly. Sirens did go off so compromised on the take shelter thingie and sat on the bottom basement step to finish my late lunch sammich (club with real heirloom tomato from Canada). A real tornado sighting would have me in the old well house underneath and behind the basement stairs.
LOL. I don't do legs, But need to start since I don't think I can bike anymore.
The tornado boys in Minnesota this afternoon? There is a red box by Redwing, and 2 red boxes NW of MSP. Time to be a Gopher up there.
Just got done mowing and trimming the yard, it's getting dry out here in N. Ames, which is surprising with the amount of rain we had not that long ago.
Got still here for an hour or so and now it's gusting like it wants to blow down every tree in the hood. Was gusting in the 40's most of the morning then the storm than dead still now it's got to be 40-something MPH again.
Rural water says drinking water and some bathing( showers under 5 minutes), all else prohibited. Town of Oakland also can’t keep with demand and any other town using shallow wells in the Nishnabotna watershed also experiencing water shortages. Lucky to have a deep well(200’) and no livestock now. No rain since April 22.
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If you take the lower map and change it to May of 2024, it appears Iowa is in much better shape, but, the drought nationally has worsened and closing in on Iowa now from the different sides. Compared to 2 years prior not sure which is worse, but much different.
Nearly got major hail on the car twice. Dodged the worst though.
Yeah, I was watching radar the whole time. Looked pretty nasty, but we never got anything here. I swear there's some kind of force field that prevents it from raining here.
My in-laws live near mayville, Wi and sounds like it got hit pretty hard
Big day tomorrow in the OH river valley/upper mid-south. Could go high risk depending on the number of rounds of convection they forecast.
Yeah there was a civil emergency declared for Dodge County so it must have been pretty bad. I was watching radar and there was some crazy rotation.
Watched it slide east as I dodged hail under a gas station from one that eventually went warned up by Portage and that was ugly. Rotated south of Beaver Dam until it dropped by Horicon. Lot of damage to Mayville and Juneau it looks like.
