Who’s getting heavy rain today? Here in Roch the thunder just announced another mess of heavy rain to go with the deluge we’ve had for the last couple hours. If this keeps up I might be able to cast in the Mississippi by standing atop the Lake Zumbro dam and cast downstream.
No rain here since this morning and that was minimal.
Same. Just some minor dog urine here today.
The Park Department here has just closed the gates along bike path routes that follow the streams and rivers here in town.
I want to go out and check my good glass gauge but don’t want to have to put the diving gear on to get to it.
The Park Department here has just closed the gates along bike path routes that follow the streams and rivers here in town.
I want to go out and check my good glass gauge but don’t want to have to put the diving gear on to get to it.
diving gear!
Yesterday they were clamoring about 1-2 inches here, according to them now it might rain about 7 tonight 
Wow…nothing here either so far today. Went from a forecast of 2-3 inches today down to a 1/4 inch at most tonight..
I’m glad we are missing the rain today, words I would not have said last summer haha
1.65 since this morning.
Right at 3 inches today on the North side of Rochester.
Had 1.3” overnight, and another half inch today.
I got about 3/4 of an inch last night. There’s a decent rain coming down now.
There is some massive flooding in southwest MN, southeast SD, and northwest IA. The Big Sioux River has spilled over its banks and is cresting at 39 feet.
Reed Timmers headed to St cloud Monday fantastic.
Its dumping again here now.
There’s a park where the Zumbro River and Cascade Creek merge right behind the house and the park is getting filled up with water pretty good now. Now wind at all, just straight down dumping. Got some lightning and thunder with the rain too. Not one of the many cells that have had rain in them offered up a nice gently rain, just these super sized down pours.
Lake Zumbro, north of Rochester is up 5 feet and still climbing, but then most everything that falls north of the airport here and south of Zumbrota goes into that lake.
The Cascade had shown signs of dropping a bit but the river has risen enough now to back the creeks water up. Now with this shot and a couple more looming to the west things will pick back up again tonight. Hard telling how things will turn out.
3 inches in an hour SE of Ferryville yesterday.
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HEY……..its not raining this morning!!!!!!! 
and looks like no rain for 4 straight days in the forecast!!!!!! 
Looks like a couple days of 80s but I am seeing a cool trend out after that. Got a couple sources saying highs in the upper 60s and low 70s in the Brainerd / Mille Lacs area which is pretty crazy for end of June. Not much swimming for the kiddos yet this year …
Some horrific photos from Iowa right now. South of Sioux falls SD got like 18 inches over the last few days.
Some horrific photos from Iowa right now. South of Sioux falls SD got like 18 inches over the last few days.
That’s insane.
Yeah I saw a photo this morning of someone’s father in laws house and water was up to the soffit!
Unreal. From severe droughts to biblical flooding.
https://www.keyc.com/livestream/
This is live coverage of the Rapidan Dam on the Blue Earth river. They’re worried the dam is going to fail. And of course the Blue Earth dumps into the Minnesota and the Minnesota dumps into Pool 2 so all of this is headed our way too.
Steve
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/rapidan-dam-fails-evacuation-blue-earth-county/
Looks like it failed about an hour ago
Wow, that is spooky crazy $hit right there! 
-J.
Insane!
If you’ve never been to the Rapidan Dam, it’s a lot bigger than you might think, especially given it’s location in very FLAT southern MN. The landscape gives way to the Blue Earth river gorge out of nowhere – which is very deep and the dam is very big. Looks like the dam is still holding but the water (a LOT of it) found a way around. If that thing busted open, I think all hell would break loose. I hope it doesn’t come to that. More rain tonight, but hopefully mostly north of there.
fished below that dam many times… bad deal…
That is some angry water.
Astonishing. I can see why the water found a way around. So much debris piled up where the water is supposed to go.
For perspective, that DAM is 87′ high. Mostly silt on the backside, but SO much water. I’ve watched livestream coverage of it for most of the morning. Looks like the river found a new channel. Dam will likely not survive this event either way though, the MNDNR has been wanting to remove it for a long time.
Record level floods still expected along most of the MN River Valley this week. 
June 24, 2024 at 12:27 pm#2278263
If you’ve never been to the Rapidan Dam, it’s a lot bigger than you might think, especially given it’s location in very FLAT southern MN. The landscape gives way to the Blue Earth river gorge out of nowhere – which is very deep and the dam is very big.
Very good point TL, I visited it in college and it blew my mind how big and seemingly out of place it was.
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