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Strong to Severe Thunderstorms in the East; Heat in the Central and Western U.S.

Strong to potentially severe thunderstorms with damaging wind gusts are forecast Thursday from parts of New England into the Mid Atlantic and Carolinas. Significant heat will expand across the West and Central Plains through Friday, potentially breaking daily high temperature records. Dangerous heat will then build into the Eastern U.S. this weekend through much of 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