One of the most confusing parts of our weather forecast deals with the use of rain and snow chances. We express those as percentages… 20% chance for rain, 50% chance for snow, etc. People are often misled by these numbers as they think these are the actual chances for rain or snow. This is incorrect.
In meteorology, the [...]
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Summer 2009… Cool!
Most people I talk to are taking our cool summer in stride. I suppose temperatures in the 70s and lower 80s are much more fun to be outdoors in than summers where we soar into the 90s with high humidity. However… there are a few of you die-hard summer fans who want to know why [...]
10 years since Lewiston
Hi all,
Ten years ago today, the town of Lewiston, Minnesota was struck by an F-2 tornado. Lewiston is located in Winona County, just west of Winona. Here is a cool link from the National Weather Service that has a lot of really cool detail about the storm, as well as pictures. http://www.crh.noaa.gov/arx/?n=lewiston
On this same date, [...]
From June to…. October???
Well… what a difference a week makes. Last week at this time, most of the La Crosse area was sweltering under temperatures in the 90s and high humidity. Summer had finally blasted into the Coulee Region… or did it? This week, temperatures plummeted into the lower to middle 60s for afternoon highs, along with cloud [...]
Heat Awareness
Thursday was Heat Awareness day in Wisconsin. It’s kind of hard to talk about extreme heat when we’ve barely reached 80 this spring. Since I’m sure we’ll see at least a couple of scorchers this summer, I’ve decided to do another session of Weather 101 to talk about the dangers of extreme heat. Did you know [...]