12 June 2008 Wisconsin Storms

[altivo]

12 June 2008 Wisconsin Storms
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This is the Milwaukee weather radar at about 4:52 pm today. Southern Wisconsin has been getting blasted with heavy rain and tornadic storms every day or two for a couple of weeks now. As is typical, it all went just north of my location (the red plus mark) and nothing much happened here. Remembering my regrets over missing a spectacular sky photo op a week ago, I ran to get the camera this afternoon at about the time of this radar snap. Note all the tornado warnings and flash flood zones on the image, then click it and select the next cloud photo from the right edge of your screen. You can scroll through several interesting snaps of the thunderstorm activity as seen from my pasture, about 50 to 60 miles south of the actual storms.

I was acutely aware this afternoon of the traffic noise from the detour along our road. Normally I rely on my ears to track approaching storms, even if I'm indoors. It wasn't working today. There was thunder all right, but there were also motorcycles and trucks with bad undercarriages and bearings. It was all muddied and my usual confidence in what I am hearing and what it means was reduced to mud. I felt as if I were trying to read in the dark. Very frustrating.

Comments

[deffox]

This week I've started to read the local Milwaukee news again to keep up on the flooding. The weather is starting to be a bit much. If the rain ever stops I can imagine the mosquitoes.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

The mosquito population is already building, and so are the flies. Our pasture here is squishy underfoot from the amount of unabsorbed rain, and we've had nowhere near as much as central WI or central IL have gotten. The whole farm smells like a swamp right now.

[devoss.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear you were spared the brunt of these storms. I'm up in Appleton, so most of it went south of me. We still got some pretty heavy rain. I've got some family in Fond Du Lac I've yet to hear from tho.

I pray we're done with this for a couple of decades now.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Not quite spared. Something went through here about 3 am, apparently. Triggered tornado warnings, tore branches off trees, but very little actual rain. I heard thunder and rain on the roof, but missed the radio alarm for it.

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

Hmm my foot's acting up, must be a big ol storm approaching. That is a huge storm O.O

[altivo.livejournal.com]

What does your paw know about storms?

Yeah, it was a big one, but just typical of what we've been getting in this area for the last couple of weeks. Iowa, Indiana, and Wisconsin are literally disaster areas because of flooding and wind damage. I suspect it has been even worse in the states that always have this kind of storm in the spring, farther south.