Back on May 20th, the Cedar Rapids Airport reported just over an inch of precipitation. Since then, the highest total has only been 0.49 inches making for a streak of over 40 days below a half inch of precipitation. The featured chart looks into such streaks for the site by plotting the maximum consecutive days by day of the year (blue line). The red line plots consecutive days with no measurable precipitation and finally the bottom panel simply reports the daily maximum precipitation amounts. Sitting at a 40 day streak on the 1st of July is getting close to the maximum at 50 days, but the current stretch would have to extend into late August before exceeding this particularly pigeon-holed record statistic. Of course, such streaks are much easier to achieve during the cold season when daily precipitation amounts are much less.