Dedication photo- Welcome sign on North of Clayton,WI August 12th 2011

For a special dedication post to my hometown of 20 years which organized in 1909 and has a updated population of about 600 residents, I decided to take a picture and of the welcome sign on the north side of Clayton along Highway 63. I really very much enjoined my time living in Clayton, so far and am very dedicated to my community. The people and sense of community in this town makes it like no ordinary town, and makes my proud to say my hometown is Clayton,Wisconsin, No madder where life takes me I will always remember remember where I’m from, and that’s the great state of Wisconsin! A post on the great 2009 Clayton Centennial with photos of Downtown Clayton can be found HERE

Backyard Station History

Well the day is here. This will be my last post with my blogs name as Northwest Wisconsin Weather, but I would like to say there will be no goodbye because this is not the end of my and my connections to Wisconsin! Still I would like to take the opportunity to talk about my weather stations extremes over the past 3 years. I will cover the basic topics including strongest wind gusts, temp extremes snowfall and rainfall extremes, but I will say there is no way I could fit everything in one post! During the past few years Wisconsin has continue to show me it is truly the place of extremes. Besides bringing beautiful weather I’ve dealt with everything from extreme cold, heavy snow and near blizzard conditions to extreme heat, droughts, high wind, severe storms, and also extremely heavy rain. This is why I dedicated my blog to cover Northwest Wisconsin, so people could go back and look and these extremes for themselves as they occurred.

Location

My station consisted of 3 thermometers and 2 wind gauges and a official rain gauge location in various locations around the yard, which is in the Clayton Village Limits about 1 mile southeast of the residential area on top of a hill surrounded by either farm fields or trees on all sides accept the north, which is where there is distance woods.

3 year warmest and coldest temperature- Hottest: 100.F June 2011. 3 year number of 90s Total: 25 days. 2 in 2008, 1 in 2009, 10 in 2010 and 12 in 2011. Coldest: -24.F January 2008. 3 year number of days with highs below 5.F Total: 19 days. 9 in 2008, 6 in 2009, 2 in 2010 and 2 in 2011. Post with second coldest temp found HERE Post with hottest temp recorded can be found HERE

3 year Highest Wind Gust: 46MPH Occurred in a thunderstorm in July 2011. This number was tied two times before in May 2008, again October 2010. I must mention that the windiest 24th hour day my station ever experience was during the October 27th significant storm system in 2010 which was a very strong low pressure. My post on that storm can be found HERE

3 year highest 24 hour snowfall–19.0 Inches in Major December 2010 blizzard. Highest snow depth 26.0″ Mid December 2010- 2010 blizzard post HERE

3 year highest 24 hour rainfall-3.66″ July 16th 2011. July 16th flooding and lightning Post HERE

Special Thanks & Alternative Western WI blog;

I would like to take the rest of this post to thank viewers for their support over the past 3 years. I’ve had the opportunity to see all kinds of people from weather hobbyist like myself to concern citizens who live in other parts of the state. During my blogs weather and gardening coverage in Wisconsin I had about 100 to 300 viewers per month, mostly from viewers from Western Wisconsin, but some were as far away as Kansas and Oklahoma to New York. I would also like to again thank all my past viewers for all their kind comments it was people like you that kept me continuing to cover the area! For people that continue to need coverage besides the National Weather Service for Western Wisconsin, I will direct you to a friend of mines blog who also posts in this area. He does not post forecasts as often, but during storminess and active times he is always on top of things, especially with severe weather. Please visit his blog here- Dirks Forecast Center-Rice Lake,WI You can also see Tim’s Weather Blog for coverage in Washburn and Burnett Counties. There will be a link provided near the top of my new blog with these two blogs so that everyone can easily find them, otherwise they will be on the sidebar much like where they are now.

New Blog Ahead!

New blog header to be added soon.

I am happy to announce that my new blog will be called SE Minnesota Weather, I will cover 6 counties surrounding Olmstead County, making it a 7 county coverage area in Southeastern Minnesota. Some of the largest communities I will cover will include Rochester, Austin, Red Wing and Winona, and some of the smaller communities will include Cannon Falls, Zumbrota, Chatfield, Lyle, Dodge Center and Lake City to name a few. I will be making a welcome post in the next few days to announce the start of my new blog coverage area!

Note to friends and connected blogs

I ask that all my friends who have my link typed out on their blog to please change the name to SE Minnesota Weather as soon as it’s a convenience to them!

Thanks Blog Owner

Derek McKay