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***OFFICIAL 2026 WEATHER THREAD***

Ms3r4ISU said:
I stayed home until the worst was through and saw all kinds of branches, sticks, leaves, even half a tree down on my way in to work. We got around 2 in. rain although I didn't measure and empty. Wish I had an anemometer for days like this.
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We had 2.5 in our gauge but it reads higher than the official report, we easily got a couple of inches in N Ames. I spoke to our investment guy and he said there were a few limbs down in and around Ingersol in DM.

Really glad all the power lines up here are buried so we have less of a chance of an outage. Of course the oldest trees up here are no more than 15 years old at most so few it any down limbs
 
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Eastern Iowa has just gotten hammered this last 6 days. It needs to stop. 6 inches in a week in some spots
 
Clonehomer said:
Check you policy first. When we had hail here earlier in the year there were a lot of people that discovered their homeowners didn’t cover roofs as well as they thought they did. Several companies snuck changes into the deductible or the roof depreciation value during an insurance renewal.
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Yup. State Farm changed our policy this year increasing wind/hail deductible to 1% of the home value.
 
isufbcurt said:
Shhhhhhh, his dad has his mom convinced it's really inches and not centimeters!!!
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I'm willing to concede there was miscommunication on the totals before they reached me or there was something about the placement of the rain gauge the led to an exaggerated reading, but the next time my dad mistakenly reads and reports cm as inches will be the first time. No man in Iowa with 40+ years in the ag field would ever read a gauge that badly.
 
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I'm between Corning and Lenox a little south of US 34 and there is a ton of damage in this area. Basically any grain bin that had been emptied within at least a several mile radius is destroyed or seriously damaged, quite a few sheds, lots of hail damage to siding, roof damage from wind, trees and power lines down all over. We seemed to fare better than most in that we have some damage but structures at our farm are all basically intact.

Haven't checked crops extensively but guessing things are damaged but not badly enough to justify replant... lots of leaning corn and shredded leaves but unclear how many plants totally taken out of how the remaining will recover.

Not sure if it's derecho scale but definitely messed up a lot in this area.
 
houjix said:
I'm willing to concede there was miscommunication on the totals before they reached me or there was something about the placement of the rain gauge the led to an exaggerated reading, but the next time my dad mistakenly reads and reports cm as inches will be the first time. No man in Iowa with 40+ years in the ag field would ever read a gauge that badly.
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I think you misinterpreted the jest of my post - he didn't misread it, he has your mom intentionally convinced it's inches and not centimeters.
 
DJSteve said:
I'm between Corning and Lenox a little south of US 34 and there is a ton of damage in this area. Basically any grain bin that had been emptied within at least a several mile radius is destroyed or seriously damaged, quite a few sheds, lots of hail damage to siding, roof damage from wind, trees and power lines down all over. We seemed to fare better than most in that we have some damage but structures at our farm are all basically intact.

Haven't checked crops extensively but guessing things are damaged but not badly enough to justify replant... lots of leaning corn and shredded leaves but unclear how many plants totally taken out of how the remaining will recover.

Not sure if it's derecho scale but definitely messed up a lot in this area.
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FWIW this will not meet the derecho criteria as it has not continued long enough.
 
Sub pump running every 50 seconds after a huge downpour just now.
 
My wife and I always joke that there is a new weather term thrown out every year.

The new one for me this year was

areal flood watch=An Areal Flood Warning is issued for flooding that occurs more gradually, normally from prolonged and persistent moderate to heavy rainfall

Saw this on 5, and knowing 5 I assumed they just misspelled a flooding.
 
dmclone said:
My wife and I always joke that there is a new weather term thrown out every year.

The new one for me this year was

areal flood watch=An Areal Flood Warning is issued for flooding that occurs more gradually, normally from prolonged and persistent moderate to heavy rainfall

Saw this on 5, and knowing 5 I assumed they just misspelled a flooding.
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