What a wet month this is turning out to be, more bouts of heavy rain impacted central Iowa yesterday, first in the morning, and then again in the evening hours. The morning storms brought half inch to an inch. The photo above was taken in Downtown Des Moines as a low cloud deck was set in. The tops of the 801 grand building and the wells Fargo building was not visible. Both bouts of rain are thanks to a frontal boundary that has been draped over Iowa for the past week. The night time storms brought the heaviest amounts of rain. Flash flooding was reported in Ames and Des Moines metro area. Lightning was also very intense and frequent. Amounts were widespread and ranged from 2-3″ to as much as just under 4″ in Dallas and Polk Counties. Des Moines international airport broke a record daily rainfall record for August 28th.

For Des Moines at my station say 3.07″ bringing the monthly total to 8.14″ which is nearly double the normal rain.

Rainfall totals for August 28th

Adel 3.96″
West Des Moines 3.60″
Polk City 3.57″
Windsor Heights 3.49″
Ames 3.29″
Norwalk 3.19″
Fairmount Park Des Moines 3.07″
Earlham 3.06″
Urbandale 3.00″
Winterset 3.00″
Ankeny 2.89″
Newton 2.83″
Bondurant 2.68″
Madrid 2.35″
Johnston 2.35″
Clive 2.27″