***Official 2025 Weather Thread***

[CYEATHAWK]

I’ll have to ask my Dad if it’s as bad as it was 60 years ago. Wednesday is my birthday. Every year my parents always tell me how horribly hot it was the day I was born. The only room in the hospital with AC back then (1965) was the OR room and rather than make my Dad sit out in the hot waiting room, they let him stay in the OR room during labor and delivery. He was the first one to hold me.

Keep in mind this was back when Dads were kept in the waiting rooms and never allowed in the room during delivery.

Fast forward three years later when my sister was born. My Dad fully expected to be in the room again and they told him no, he was to sit in the waiting room. He argued enough they finally consented to him standing at the OR door and looking through the window.

On July 23rd, 1965 it was 99 degrees in Des Moines. If there was any kind of humidity like there can be this time of year.......he is right, it was miserable.

 

[houjix]

I got 2.5 inches in WDM in 30 min. Street flooding and that’s the first I’ve seen that here in 9 years on this house. So much water and nowhere to go. My sump pump barely kept up for a long and stressful hour after it stopped.

One gauge has over 3" another in a different spot had close to 3.5" in that 30-45 min span at my house in WDM. Water ran down the hill over topping our landscape blocks and got into 2 window wells and began seeping into the basement.

 

[BillBrasky4Cy]

Random downpour in WDM right as I turn the grill on.

I got 2.5 inches in WDM in 30 min. Street flooding and that’s the first I’ve seen that here in 9 years on this house. So much water and nowhere to go. My sump pump barely kept up for a long and stressful hour after it stopped.

That rain was insane! That little cell just parked on top of WDM and kept building in from the back side. We live towards the bottom of a long gradual hill so everything runs to the end of the street. I've never seen water flood out of the street and into yards.

 

[cowgirl836]

I’ll have to ask my Dad if it’s as bad as it was 60 years ago. Wednesday is my birthday. Every year my parents always tell me how horribly hot it was the day I was born. The only room in the hospital with AC back then (1965) was the OR room and rather than make my Dad sit out in the hot waiting room, they let him stay in the OR room during labor and delivery. He was the first one to hold me.

Keep in mind this was back when Dads were kept in the waiting rooms and never allowed in the room during delivery.

Fast forward three years later when my sister was born. My Dad fully expected to be in the room again and they told him no, he was to sit in the waiting room. He argued enough they finally consented to him standing at the OR door and looking through the window.

1. Happy 60th!!!!
2. Great day for a birthday, my oldest is a mere 53 years behind you!
3. I get a similar spiel every year about my early summer birthday as an '88 baby.

 

[KidSilverhair]

1. Happy 60th!!!!
2. Great day for a birthday, my oldest is a mere 53 years behind you!
3. I get a similar spiel every year about my early summer birthday as an '88 baby.

Yeah the summer of ‘88 was a beast. Not only hot but drier than dry.

My mom always talks about how freezing cold it was the day they brought me home from the hospital in mid-December of /mumbles/ 1963.

 

[houjix]

That rain was insane! That little cell just parked on top of WDM and kept building in from the back side. We live towards the bottom of a long gradual hill so everything runs to the end of the street. I've never seen water flood out of the street and into yards.

I was on 80/35 on the west side when it started. Traffic was barely moving and getting to the 235 exit was rather harrowing. Then on 235 multiple cars just saying F it and pulling to the side and stopping. Got off on Valley West and headed south. The low spot north of the Woodland intersection basically had water go from about 2 inches below the top of the median to the top of the median in the minute or so I was at the light. Then it was threading the way through rivers of water down various side streets to make it home right before the above mentioned basement water issues.

 

[SaraV]

Yeah the summer of ‘88 was a beast. Not only hot but drier than dry.

My mom always talks about how freezing cold it was the day they brought me home from the hospital in mid-December of /mumbles/ 1963.

I was only 12, but I do remember how hot & dry that summer was. I remember how brown and crunchy the grass was at camp that summer.

I'll remember how hot '88 was, and how cold early '94 was.

 

[Cyclonepride]

Yeah the summer of ‘88 was a beast. Not only hot but drier than dry.

My mom always talks about how freezing cold it was the day they brought me home from the hospital in mid-December of /mumbles/ 1963.

That was my senior year of high school, and first year of college. Moving into dorms without AC was a *****.

 

[CyCity]

One gauge has over 3" another in a different spot had close to 3.5" in that 30-45 min span at my house in WDM. Water ran down the hill over topping our landscape blocks and got into 2 window wells and began seeping into the basement.

I blocked in my window wells for that very reason. They’d fill up every time we’d get flash flooding because debris would clog up the drain that was in there. It’s been wonderful to not have to worry about anymore.

 

[cyspy]

I was only 12, but I do remember how hot & dry that summer was. I remember how brown and crunchy the grass was at camp that summer.

I'll remember how hot '88 was, and how cold early '94 was.

'88 was a terrible year. It rained on Mother's Day and then we didn't get another drop of rain until late August. '74 was also a bad year called the "triple whammy." Wet spring,followed by hot dry summer then an early frost and then some people didn't get harvest in until December and some harvested in snow.

 

[Turn2]

Yeah the summer of ‘88 was a beast. Not only hot but drier than dry.

My mom always talks about how freezing cold it was the day they brought me home from the hospital in mid-December of /mumbles/ 1963.

I was pollinating corn in Nebraska that summer, in a field surrounded by mature trees on three sides. I'm not sure how we survived.

 

[cowgirl836]

Extreme heat watch for us now Wed-Thurs.

 

[WartburgClone]

Even weak tornadoes can produce a TDS going through corn. Leaves tear up and easily elevate.

I love surprise 6 AM tornados.

Satellite data shows track of Saturday's tornado in Story County

This latest tornado is Iowa's 19th of 2025.

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