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Regional Outbreaks of Severe Weather Through Early Next Week; Early Season Heat Wave across the South

Active spring pattern across the center of our nation with several episodes of severe weather and heavy rainfall expected into next week. The potential for very large hail, long track tornadoes, severe wind gusts, frequent cloud to ground lightning strikes and flash flooding are in the outlook. Furthermore, dangerous early season heat wave continues for the Gulf Coast states into early next week. Read More >

 

October 2018 will go down in the record books cooler and wetter than normal for most. At Green Bay, the temperature averaged a tenth of a degree above normal. For locations north and west of Green Bay, temperatures averaged 1 to 3 degrees below normal where Rhinelander was 1.3 F below normal and Wausau 3.0 F below normal. It was a very wet October across the region. Wausau recorded the 5th wettest October on record, while Green Bay and Rhinelander recorded the 6th wettest October on record.

Additional information can be found on the Midwest Climate Watch from the Midwest Climate Center at: https://mrcc.illinois.edu/cliwatch/watch.htm