***Official 2025 Weather Thread***

[nfrine]

God's Country.

 

[Pope]

This is what the Channel 13 future radar shows for 8:30pm tonight. As an Ankeny resident, I'm praying it's accurate.

 

[CyDawg23]

This is what the Channel 13 future radar shows for 8:30pm tonight. As an Ankeny resident, I'm praying it's accurate.

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As a Johnston resident, me too. But at 1p WHO also predicted this to happen between 4-5p today. Their models are unimpressive lately. But hopefully they’re right this time.

 

[nfrine]

1.5" in the rain gauge this morning! 30 miles east of Ames. Much needed.

 

[cyclimate]

That’s called an outflow boundary. The cooler air from aloft coming down with the rain, hitting the ground and spreading out. Sometimes that can cause enough instability to generate more rain or even storm cells along that boundary.

Especially when colliding with another outflow boundary.

 

[Turn2]

This is what the Channel 13 future radar shows for 8:30pm tonight. As an Ankeny resident, I'm praying it's accurate.

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Now that's spotty. Got 0.29" and one good clap of thunder. I won't turn it down.

 

[galactawitz]

Apparently the Ames bubble has expanded and is now programmed to specifically target severe weather?

 

[wxman1]

 

[dafarmer]

.01”

 

[Ms3r4ISU]

.01”

How can you even measure that?

 

[FerShizzle]

10 minutes of heavy downpour in Ankeny. Was just getting ready to fire up the grill.

 

[Pope]

Intense downpour on the NW side of Ankeny. We got 1/2 inch of rain in 15 minutes! We were gonna grill out hamburgers but switched to making sloppy joes.

 

[FerShizzle]

Round 2 came through. 1.25” in a 40 minute downpour.

 

[jsb]

I had a weird experience today. I hit a small storm cell on hwy 330 just south of hwy 30. It wasn't raining especially hard (I hate driving in heavy rain and I wasn't bothered by it) and I never hit any hail. But I bet I saw 50 cars pulled over. I actually pulled over too because I thought maybe there was a tornado on the ground---that's the only reason I could think of as to why so many people would be pulled over. I eventually made it to a gas station and waited it out there. There was an ambulance and a few sirens.

 

[NWICY]

Wow, the humidity really shot up today. Yuck.

 

[casey1973]

A definite cloud burst over north Ames right now. Thankfully no wind.

 

[NoCreativity]

It's been thundering since about 5:30 and not even a drop from it in Des Moines.

 

[madguy30]

Wow, the humidity really shot up today. Yuck.

Gnats were out which I assume means rain is on the way.

 

[NWICY]

Gnats were out which I assume means rain is on the way.

Gnats have been terrible the last few days in my area.

 

[dafarmer]

How can you even measure that?

Rain gauge, doh. 3 miles away they had an inch last night.