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Severe Thunderstorms in the Northeast and Northern Plains; Critical Fire Weather in the West

Scattered severe thunderstorms capable of damaging wind gusts and hail are forecast across the Northeast U.S. and North Dakota today. Heavy to excessive rainfall is possible over eastern New Mexico into western Texas and over the western Florida peninsula today. Critical fire weather conditions will persist today over parts of the interior Northwest and Great Basin. 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