Some much needed rain fell over Iowa on Saturday, with the official site in Cedar Rapids (at the airport) reporting 2.99 inches of rain. This established a new daily record for the site. The featured chart presents one minute interval precipitation from the site between 1 and 8 AM. A bit more precipitation was reported after this chart ends, thus why the reported total does not exactly match. Anyway, the chart also computes the hourly precipitation rates based on extrapolating minute or 15 minute interval totals. It shows shows the actual hourly rates based on 60 minute interval data. The chart attempts to illustrate the rainfall rates involved with heavy precipitation events such as this one. With actual rates maxing out at about an inch per hour and the dry antecedent conditions, it is likely that much of this rainfall was happily soaked in by the ground.

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