The rainfall much of Iowa received this weekend is almost too good to believe! Rainfall totals on Saturday reached 3-4 inches over southwestern Iowa. The featured image is a combination of rainfall estimates and modeled surface water runoff from the storms on Saturday. This model output is from the Iowa Daily Erosion Project found on this website. Areas that are shown picking up 2-3 inches of rain only show less than a half of an inch of runoff. The reason being that the rains feel at a reasonable pace and there is vegetation around to slow down rain drops before they strike the ground. It also helped that the ground was quite thirsty! Heavy rains are continuing on Sunday with Lamoni reporting over 8 inches for the event!

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