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Prolonged, Intense Heat Wave; Excessive Rainfall in the Southern Rockies and Central Plains into the Upper Midwest

Extremely dangerous heat persists through Thursday with widespread daily temperature records. Monsoonal moisture continues to bring heavy rain and flash flooding to New Mexico and west Texas through Thursday, especially in the burn scar areas. Thunderstorms and heavy to excessive rain will continue to bring a flash flood threat from the Central Plains into the Upper Midwest. 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