***OFFICIAL 2026 WEATHER THREAD***
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Cyclonepride
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Yeah, I've been in really good shape my whole life, practically felt bullet proof, and then slowly but surely... you just aren't. I can still clear the snow, but I can see that day on the horizon.
Same here (farm strong). I tore off and shingled my cape cod styled house (10/12 pitch roof with dormers) by myself at age 65. 120 eighty pound bundles up the ladder albeit not as fast as my 30 yr. old self. 5 years later I suffered a near life ending heart attack in my sleep. Things change.
I have a buddy that lives out in that neck of the woods. He posted a pic of the snow over the handles of his snow blower.
Laredo Texas hit 102 today.
Drove across WY, coast-coast on I 80 a few days ago.
Wind was straight out of the west, gusts up to 70 mph.
My truck typically gets 25+ per gallon.
Last Tuesday? 11 mpg.
Wind was straight out of the west, gusts up to 70 mph.
My truck typically gets 25+ per gallon.
Last Tuesday? 11 mpg.
Yep--I could have written that post. It is an amazing and awakening and hard to accept at times.
Hearing rumbles in Central Iowa skies. Sounds like spring is about to arrive.
Nothing like tshirt and shorts at 40 degrees when Spring arrives, cold sucks I love to be outside
The lightning in the Cedar Rapids area was intense in the middle of last night! I enjoy storms...but the lightning flashes kept waking me up!
Today we have potentially our first major severe weather event of the season:
The expectation is that a number of storms will spawn in around southeast Nebraska and eastern Kansas in that orange shaded region above around 3-4 pm, and then quickly merge into a line as the storm motion is rather parallel to the shear vectors. They should reach central Iowa around 6-9 PM, and most likely in the form of a large line or mess of storms spewing damaging winds everywhere, and embedded tornadoes on the south side of the storms with the best access to the warm sector.
We also have a 5% tornado risk today for half of Iowa. The SPC graphics have been updated recently, so there are now 3 levels of hatching in order to communicate intensity. The dotted lines means we are in the first tier of hatching, where a reasonable absolute max strength of tornadoes today will be around EF2 (so enough to rip off the roof and collapse some exterior walls of the house, but you'll likely be fine still in a basement/interior room away from windows).
That said, there has been an increase in sunshine in the source region of tonight's storms around Nebraska/Kansas into southern/central Iowa, enough that it could end up being more intense than originally forecast...
The expectation is that a number of storms will spawn in around southeast Nebraska and eastern Kansas in that orange shaded region above around 3-4 pm, and then quickly merge into a line as the storm motion is rather parallel to the shear vectors. They should reach central Iowa around 6-9 PM, and most likely in the form of a large line or mess of storms spewing damaging winds everywhere, and embedded tornadoes on the south side of the storms with the best access to the warm sector.
We also have a 5% tornado risk today for half of Iowa. The SPC graphics have been updated recently, so there are now 3 levels of hatching in order to communicate intensity. The dotted lines means we are in the first tier of hatching, where a reasonable absolute max strength of tornadoes today will be around EF2 (so enough to rip off the roof and collapse some exterior walls of the house, but you'll likely be fine still in a basement/interior room away from windows).
That said, there has been an increase in sunshine in the source region of tonight's storms around Nebraska/Kansas into southern/central Iowa, enough that it could end up being more intense than originally forecast...
