wisconsinwx

Very close to freezing away from the UHI in SE Wisconsin as well. Pretty impressive, helped by the dewpoints in the 30s.

A factor in the uptick as well could be more mass events. After most of the summer events were canceled (in terms of festivals) staples like Oktoberfest are going on in September, and I can tell you last weekend when I went my sister and I were about the only people wearing masks in the open-air pavilion.

I concur, my guess is if tomorrow doesn't yield 80F, Milwaukee is done with 80F days. I won't go full Spartman though.

Yes, that's about the pinnacle in both respects, and temperatures weren't too extreme either way to boot both seasons.

I don’t think we’ll go a five day period this fall or winter with as little sun as we’re going to see from Tuesday through tomorrow. Maybe we’ll get lucky the last few hours of daylight tomorrow.

Moderate La Nina...

I'm surprised you've been in the D1 this summer. It seemed like Minneapolis area had been getting patterns with steady once a week decent rains at least, similar to Milwaukee. We have not been in D1 this warm season, and to be honest if there are two things we're due for in my locale it's drought and an ice storm. I'd be thankful if we had neither in the next ten years.

The jet stream can give us a decent secondary severe weather season, especially the further north you go in the subforum typically.

Good thing that tornado warned part of the storm that went through Union Grove, WI has only been indicated to be straight line winds so far. UMB Wx and I almost chose a park about 3 miles ENE to be our viewing spot. Would’ve been really nervewracking being stuck in the heavy convection not knowing if an actual tornado was rain-wrapped in it.

Raymond, maybe a few miles west of where UMB Wx and I were stationed, reported 5.8” of rain. It’s crazy but I’m not even that surprised with the way it came down (most of that would’ve fallen in an hour’s time).

Did the wind start before, at the onset or after the rain started? For us it was probably five to ten minutes after the heavy rain that the wind really kicked in.

Really was worth it to take this side trip, some kind of impressive storm. It took awhile for the winds to ramp up once the rain started but when they did, oh boy. Hard to estimate when getting buffeted with rain.

UMB Wx and I are camped out in our cars in N Racine County, just off I94 about two miles south of the Milwaukee County border. Any signs concerning about that radar indicated tornado near Lake Geneva? We could be in its path but it is no doubt rain wrapped.

Are your windows facing west?