Looks like Ames and the metro are getting zero rain tonight. Think it’s been 20 days without a drop of rain after getting like 8 inches in 3 weeks in April.
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That is a beautiful photo!
A lot of it. Had almost zero visibility pounding rain from downtown to West Des Moines
I was walking out of Fareway last night when the hail opened up. That was fun. Tried to upload a video, but it wont load. Marble sized. Have a nice bruise on my back. Hail was piled up in the middle of road and rain water rushing down the sides.
South of Waterloo. Almost enough rain to wet the patio here. In a pocket here where we haven't had anything measurable in 3+ ? weeks. Weather Underground went from 100% chance of 1.25 @ 7:00 to 58% chance of 0.04 @ 1:00 AM. Plenty of lightning. My hope is that the storms predicted to redevelop this afternoon/evening don't contain too much lightning so as to make it dangerous while I'm out watering my garden. 
Farmers in the area disappointed--some of the early planted could use a shower to help finish emergence and the later seeds are sitting in dry dirt
Farmers in the area disappointed--some of the early planted could use a shower to help finish emergence and the later seeds are sitting in dry dirt
Half inch outside Nevada last night. I had 1.28 on April 23rd and 0.02 on April 26th and nothing since. Was nice to finally break that.
We had about half an inch maybe a little more in North Ames, started around 11:30, grass sure needed the rain. Lots of lighting and thunder but little wind.
