Geoboy645

Well here we go with the flooding here. We got about 2.5 inches or so on Friday. Not that big of a deal right. Well everything is so wet here that it's flooding as if we got 4 or 5 inches. And we are supposed to get a bunch the next two days.

Yeah I heard the winds come through about 12 or so last night. Got up to 30 mph on the local weather station which means probably 40-50 out in the country. Noticed a bunch of sticks down this morning.

As someone who is going camping this weekend at Devils Lake, this sucks a lot. Hopefully I don't get flooded out like that area has a tendency to do in a heavy rain situation. Also this is just going to do wonders for our rivers. The farmers are never going to get in their fields. It never ends!

I totally agree with the 2008 redux concerns for the next few months. What sucks is that because of how the Wisconsin is it can't really hold a lot of water like it did in 2008. If I remember right the Wisconsin really didn't flood that much by itself, it was mostly the tributaries like Dell Creek and the Baraboo that were the issues. Also was that park the one pretty close to the catholic church?

Yeah after a pretty nice week last week this whole week has just been blehh. At least the sun should be out for most of the weekend here and inland at least it might get near 70 on Saturday and Sunday.

Yeah it looks pretty bad throughout Illinois and along the Mississippi. Bad thing is it looks like the extended forecast is much of the same except maybe a bit north. Our main-stem rivers up here are already higher so any major rains could send them back into flood stage for the third time this year. And we haven't gotten into the real wet part of the year. If we have a weather pattern similar to last august's we are going to be in major trouble. 2008 v2 anyone?

Oh yeah I'm just TOTALLY loving the death band potential. /s

Confirmed?

Kind of an odd juxtaposition on the NWS warnings and watches map right now. Flood Watches one side of Lake Michigan and Red Flag Warnings on the other

Uhh I'm good with not having 7 inches of snow.

Right now it is just absolutely puking snow. I probably have a half inch or an inch on grassy area right now. These are probably some of the heavier pure snowfall rates I've seen all year and that is saying something.

25"?!

Put that thing back where it came from or so help me!

Obivously this month is going to make last April look like March 2012. /s

Talk about a tale of two halves for this month. The first half continued the cold and stormy pattern from the previous month and half. This culminated with the "bomb cyclone" mid-month and the flooding from it. The flooding at least locally surpassed last August's and was the first flooding since 2008 to cause evacuations in the area. The second month in contrast has been rather benign with plenty of 40-50 degree sunny days and 20-30 degree nights, with some light rain scattered in their for good measure. Overall this March will probably end up cooler than average thanks to the ridiculously cold first week.