Excessive Rainfall and Significant Flooding in the Upper Midwest This Weekend

Heavy to excessive rainfall is expected over the weekend across eastern Iowa, northern Missouri, northwest Illinois and southern Wisconsin. Numerous flash floods, some with significant impacts, are expected in these areas. Heaviest rainfall will occur overnight Saturday and Sunday, so be sure to have multiple ways to receive warnings. Read More >

Each month of the season was warmer than normal, resulting in one of our warmest falls on record. Each month was also quite dry, causing severe to extreme levels of drought to develop south of the Ohio River by November. On the plus side, the dry conditions meant there was very little severe weather.

	Average Temperature	Departure from Normal	Precipitation	Departure from Normal
Bowling Green	64.0°	+4.9°	4.04"	-7.49"
Frankfort	61.8°	+5.1°	4.19"	-6.11"
Lexington	62.3°	+5.1°	3.84"	-5.73"
Louisville Bowman	63.4°	+5.0°	4.65"	-5.34"
Louisville International	64.8°	+5.1°	4.58"	-5.28"

Bowling Green: 3rd warmest and 6th driest fall on record
Frankfort: 2nd warmest and 10th driest fall on record
Lexington: 2nd warmest and 6th driest fall on record
Louisville: Warmest and 10th driest fall on record

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Excessive Rainfall and Significant Flooding in the Upper Midwest This Weekend

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