Heat Across the Center of the Nation; Severe Thunderstorms Across the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley

Heat expands across the Desert Southwest, Plains, Mississippi Valley and Midwest into Monday. Fire weather concerns continue for portions of the Intermountain West. Active monsoonal moisture fuels thunderstorms over the Southwest with possible flash flooding. Tropical cyclone Fausto in the Pacific, should weaken as it approaches Hawaii; Dangerous surf, swells and rip currents are expected. Read More >

Beneficial Rainfall Hit Southern Wisconsin!

Rainfall across southern Wisconsin ranged from around 1/2 inch over far eastern Racine and Kenosha counties, to 1 to 3 inches over the remainder of the area on Thursday and Thursday night. See the various maps below for details. These maps are created using a limited dataset of precip reports with lots of smoothing to give an overall picture of how much and where the rainfall occured. Your individual reports will likely vary from what the map shows. The heaviest rainfall happened over southern Lafayette and Green counties where up to 4 to 5 inches of rain was reported.

Rainfall maps from 7am June 11th through 7 am June 12th. They are available [ here ]

Southern Wisconsin: