***Official 2023 Weather Thread***

[cstrunk]

Storms always get to me when it's dark so I can't go after them.

Same thing in East Texas (well, that and hills/trees), so I have to drive at least 2-3 hours NW or SW where storms usually initiate earlier and the terrain is a lot better.

 

[AirWalke]

Forget Frankie, this is the dude you don’t want name dropping your city in his tweets.

 

[BCClone]

Forget Frankie, this is the dude you don’t want name dropping your city in his tweets.

Frankie's in Hollywood now anyhow.

 

[Gunnerclone]

 

[MNCYWX]

East of I35 will be fun. Damaging wind at tornado potential look robust from individual cells that fire initially along warm front just north of the MN/IA border front and trailing down cold front. Should tend to form a squall line with time but think spin-up tornadoes along it will be a thing. Hail probably isn't accounted for as high as I think it could be with a 'cool' early season setup.

Up my way... Thinking I'll be seeing 45° to 70° over about a 20 mile difference. Bonkers. Then we'll close with a few inches of snow.

Rinse. Repeat. Maybe about 50 miles further south with the warm front than last time.

Get ready for another tornado outbreak kind of day.

 

[salennon07]

Rinse. Repeat. Maybe about 50 miles further south with the warm front than last time.

Get ready for another tornado outbreak kind of day.

How's it looking for ames? My neighborhood got drilled with hail damage on Friday. This weather is gonna be stressing me out this year it seems.

 

[snowcraig2.0]

 

[snowcraig2.0]

 

[laminak]

I'd like to think the 2020 Derecho gave us several turns over the barrel, but of course, it doesn't work like that.

That and last year’s mini derecho not to mention two major floods within the last fifteen years.

 

[snowcraig2.0]

Trying to decide if I need to go home and get the car in the garage.

 

[cyfanatic]

CR...incoming:

 

[KidSilverhair]

Oh good grief …

Is it possible stronger storms this morning might take some of the juice out of things later on?

 

[NWICY]

I guess I was thinking this one was supposed to be even later than “Tuesday afternoon”. My daughter has a track meet Tuesday and they have already cancelled at least two meets this year due to weather.

C’mon Mother Nature. I just want to see my daughter run, dammit. Is that too much to ask?

Well it sucks to not see your daughter get to rewarded for her hard work. But as a positive at least you don't have to sit through a entire track meet.

 

[cyfanatic]

 

[cyfanatic]

Big hail in SW Cedar Rapids...

EDIT: "big" is relative...but it was quarter size on average...and a lot of it still laying on the ground.

 

[Gorm]

Can confirm quarter sized hail in Amana. Put stuff indoors now Cedar Rapids!

 

[wxman1]

It is already through CR. Sounds like wide spread .5" with 1"+ mixed in places.

 

[cstrunk]

Oh good grief …

Is it possible stronger storms this morning might take some of the juice out of things later on?

Not these storms. Too isolated and plenty of daytime to recover. If anything, these could lay outflow boundaries for future storms to interact with.

 

[cyfanatic]

 

[enisthemenace]

Well it sucks to not see your daughter get to rewarded for her hard work. But as a positive at least you don't have to sit through an entire track meet.

I enjoy track meets. I know…I’m nuts