Active weather today across the upper-Midwest and Great Lakes along with Texas and Louisiana. Outside of the clouds and rain, very warm temperatures on this late March Friday.

Precipitation analysis across South Texas shows almost 19" of rainfall on Harlingen, Texas but the station clunked out last night, so not sure if there's a bucket working there. Rainfall consistent with a slow moving tropical storm. Instead this was a weak cut-off trough able to draw up Gulf of America moisture on shore in a highly divergent upper-level environment. Models seemed to do a good job on overall maximums, but placement was off. I presume this precipitation will be enormously beneficial for recharging aquifers and soaking the landscape with seemingly a year’s worth of water all at once.