Picture of heavy rain that fell, March 24th

We had a huge weather system effect us the past 3 days, it started out as rain on Monday. Monday Night there was a few quick pop up strong thunderstorms in Central Polk County and northern St Croix county, they started off over by Deer Park, and moved north over Amery, this Storm produced frequent lightning flashes and thunder that I was able to see and hear, This storm mainly produced heavy rain in that area, Shortly after that storm weakened a line of storms formed from Start Prairie down south to Woodville, this line moved north and weakened as it passed Clayton, still was strong enough to produce one close lightning flash, so some of the area saw there first Thunderstorms with rain of the season! Photo was taken March 25th, with light snow accumulation on the ground.

It was very windy during this system, especially Monday Night, you could hear the winds howling outside East Winds gusted to 40MPH here on my weather station, which was enough to blow down a section of siding off our Tin Shed, I also seen a few places with large pine tree branches down, Tuesday, We had some Moderate rain fall over the area during the morning, Then later in the evening Convective heavy rain showers moved though, we were driving back from Rice Lake at the time, we could not see anything though the wind shield, due to heavy rain. Rainfall total ended up being 0.86 here, nearing 1 inch!, The ground it totally un thawed from the rainfall and warm temps.
The warm rainy weather completely open up the pond behind our house, we call is 1st Pond due do it being the 1st one you come up too, smaller ponds and creeks are free of ice here, but last time I looked Tuesday Evening, there was still some ice left on larger lakes, Finally cooler air wrapped up behind this system and produced some snow showers, snow was under half inch, mainly just traces of snow was reported.