Yesterday's daily feature presented a 24 hour precipitation estimate with reports overlain over the Des Moines Metro showing a stripe of 5 to 6 inches over southern Polk County (Des Moines). One of the observation locations within that stripe was the Des Moines Airport. The weather station there recorded 3.77 inches on Tuesday (a daily record) and 2.12 inches on Wednesday making for a two day total of 5.89 inches. The featured chart presents the largest two day precipitation totals for Des Moines and shows the most recent event coming in fourth largest on record and the largest total since the 1970s.