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IT IS WHAT IT IS...
There are good days, bad days, and everything in between. When it comes to weather, Friday will end up near the bottom of the quality spectrum due to a combination of rain, clouds, and chilly temperatures. A bit of an ugly duckling. It's one of those days that happens from time to time and about all you can do is grin and bear it. Ride it out and look for a better horse, as the cowboys say!
Our dismal day is the result of a storm traveling up the Ohio Valley. Its track to the southeast will ensure NE winds that are not conducive to warm temperatures, especially with low clouds and occasional rain or drizzle. Highs are likely to hold in the low to mid 40s, although a few spots in the far south might scare up an upper 40. With winds increasing to 10-20, it will be a raw day. These are 4:00pm temperatures on the HRRR followed by the associated wind chills below.
As far as rain goes, the system has trended less phased, which means a slightly weaker storm that tracks further southeast. The significance of such a development is that precipitation amounts have lowered, some more than 3/4 of an inch in my northern and western counties, (the area that needed the rain most). This is an unwelcome trend there that has shown up less than 12 hours before the rains were set to arrive. To prove my point, here's what the recent EURO shows for rainfall totals. It now has .45 inches in Dubuque and .60 inches in Cedar Rapids.
24 hours earlier it had 1.43 inches in Dubuque (down .98") and 1.08 inches in Cedar Rapids (down .48")
This matters because the latest drought monitor, issued yesterday, shows severe to extreme drought in my far western counties, precisely where amounts have decreased the most.