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Hot in Parts of the West; Cold Blast Coming to the Central U.S.

Hot to extremely hot temperatures are in place much of this week across parts of California and the interior Northwest U.S. A blast of cold air will drop across the central and eastern U.S. later this week bringing below to well below normal temperatures. Read More >

Overview

Multiple rounds of severe thunderstorms impacted southern Wisconsin from the afternoon of July 13 through the evening of July 15. Occurring within a warm, muggy, and unstable air mass in place across the region, these rounds of storms brought large hail, damaging winds, as well as torrential rainfall to portions of the NWS Milwaukee/Sullivan county warning area. This overview provides a brief recap of the active period of weather. A deeper dive on the event will be provided in a future GIS story map.

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Observed rainfall between 7:00 AM July 13 and 7:00 AM July 16.
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