***Official 2022 Weather Thread***
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Since clones21 posted it, it does make me wonder. But it also wouldn’t surprise me at all. They have moved to last place for weather news teams in central Iowa.
I don’t know what the rest of Des Moines saw but for about 10 minutes downtown just before the rain, it was as windy as I’ve ever witnessed. It was crazy. We had some damage around our place and Principal Park had some serious damage.
I guess I saw 50 mph wind gusts tops. Polk county was never issued a severe thunderstorm warning.
Yeah other than the 10 minutes of wind downtown it wasn’t bad. I’m not a wind speed expert but I’d guess sustained 40 mph winds and gusts of at least 80 during those 10 minutes. Probably conservative on both. Weather app said 9 mph winds the whole time so I’m guessing there were small pockets of crazy wind but much of Des Moines wasn’t bad.
Nope, not a farmer. Just a dude that loves to golf and hates to mow.I take it you are not a farmer...
Then again...
My manual rain gauge gets accurate to about a tenth 
we got 0.2 in west Ames and honestly I didn't even know it rained - just heard loud thunder two times. On the way to work this morning saw bigger branches in yards and a street closed off by campus. And yet I didn't think I slept well at all last night. Guess I was wrong.
we got 0.2 in west Ames and honestly I didn't even know it rained - just heard loud thunder two times. On the way to work this morning saw bigger branches in yards and a street closed off by campus. And yet I didn't think I slept well at all last night. Guess I was wrong.
Hey weather peeps (@wxman1 et al), why is it so damned windy this summer? I looked at an hourly/daily color graphic of wind color coded by different speeds for Mpls in June and it was way windier than some other random years I checked.
Currently sunny but wind is W 21 mph and gusting to 44 mph. Blew down two trees in the hood last month, not during storms, just windy day like today. A far sized cottonwood branch blew down at Wood Lake Nature Center last week, just missing my car. Wind's been totally ******* up my biking and birding (can't photo birds when the branches are swaying back and forth like a metronome.)
Currently sunny but wind is W 21 mph and gusting to 44 mph. Blew down two trees in the hood last month, not during storms, just windy day like today. A far sized cottonwood branch blew down at Wood Lake Nature Center last week, just missing my car. Wind's been totally ******* up my biking and birding (can't photo birds when the branches are swaying back and forth like a metronome.)
I don't have an answer other than a hot air balloonist I know complained to me that they have been unable to fly as much as they used to due to higher winds.
Boxster, be glad you don't live in Carroll (my hometown). Seems like the wind is constantly blowing 25mph+ there for the past twenty years.
My manual rain gauge gets accurate to about a tenth
I got 1.3 just east of Sawyer.