Image from SPC The SPC has issued a “Small” Risk of severe weather for this afternoon. It includes the entire local area. This risk would mean that a few storms this afternoon may could severe. Low end severe Large hail, strong wind gusts and brief tornado’s are the main threats for this afternoon. Because it …

Regional Weather view. A warmer and stormier summer-like pattern has shifted north and will bring parts of the Upper Midwest hot and humid conditions Monday with chances of thunderstorms. Temperatures as warm as the mid 90s are possible in southern Iowa, Further north mid 80s is possible as far north as Central Minnesota and Western …

Regional weather view. Thursday region wide, Frost is possible, along with a hard freeze in Northern Minnesota and Wisconsin. Local View Thursday it becomes sunny once again, but does cool off with a cold front from the north. Highs will cool into the low to mid 60s. This cooler and drier airmass will lead to …

Tornado damage just northwest of Mikana May 23rd I’d like to first start off by thanking Dirk Miller for invited me to come along with him to survey the damage in Northeastern Barron County. Multiple waves of Thunderstorms swept across the local area on Sunday, bringing heavy rain and strong winds, some of them ended …

Image from SPC The Storm Prediction Center in Norman,Oklahoma has updated the severe weather risk and has issued a Moderate Risk! of severe thunderstorms for the Upper Midwest, including a small part of the southeast part of the local 6 county area. Slight Risk Covers everywhere else North and West of Dunn county. After morning …

Regional Weather View. A storm system will bring a chance of widespread scattered thunderstorms for most of the Upper Midwest Saturday, with temperatures staying mild. It will be warm in the south with a chance of Severe Storms in southeastern Iowa, Southern Wisconsin, and Illinois. Sunday and Monday there will be a chance of scattered …

Regional weather view. Regional weather will be quiet and dry with lots of sunshine and with very uniform, but warming temperatures across the region Tuesday and Wednesday. It’s not till Thursday that a chance of showers moves in. Highs will warm each day including Thursday. Local view Locally we will have at least 2 more …

1st cutting of the lawn this season in front yard May 16th A dry high pressure system allowed for a cool night Sunday night into Monday morning, a few sheltered locations that remained wind free did get frost, and some even fell well below freezing into the mid to upper 20s. My location did not …

Full bloom spring bulb garden May 15th 2011 Presenting my garden with spring bulbs in full bloom! The tulips quickly went into full bloom aside the daffodils, making for a very colorful scene from my garden. I am very pleased yet another year at how this turned out when everything comes into bloom at once. …

Regional weather view A cool weather pattern has set it’s self over the Upper Midwest. Cool, cloudy and showery weather will be the main weather story at least the first part of the weekend. Sunday things will clear out but it will still be cool, Frost may even develop in parts of Northern Wisconsin and …