Chance of severe Storms tonight the Hot weather ahead

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There is a chance of Severe Thunderstorms with Damaging winds and Large hail this afternoon and tonight mainly south of a line from Osceola to south of Sand Creek, there is also a chance for tornado's. keep a close watch on the weather tonight.

Tomorrow will be our first day of a sting of hot Weather highs will approach the upper 80s, in some places, with temperatures reaching 90 degrees Saturday and Sunday! Humidity may make heat index's near 100 this weekend so try stay cool! We could really use some rain so hopefully we get some. Remember to keep the garden watered in this hot weather, that's when they need it the most!

Landscapes of NW Wisconsin.

Here is a Cool Map that I put together. Showing the Different landscapes and trees types in the 6 county area! areas colored in Dark Red is where the landscape is more Sandy. and Where Red Pine and Jack pine tree stands are more common Also Birch and aspen are common there. The Green is the area where the Forest Transition is. This is where the Northern Forest to the North of the green, meets the Southern Forest to the south of the green. it is Where they Merge together So trees can range from All broad leaf forest to Pine trees. ( you can really see this in the Photos I took Below) This is also where you will see the most change in the tree types Which you can really tell if you drive from Clear Lake to Spooner area. The Orange is where the Western Prairie Is. There is less trees in this area, most trees are Broad leaf forest stands. You can really see the change from more Forested area to clear Prairie Lands when you drive from Clayton to New Richmond. The Yellow is where the Ridges and Coulees begin. This area of land has allot of steep hills and coulees. You can really see this change south of Ridgeland. less farmlands in these areas, because of all the steep hills, also most to all of the trees you will see here is broad leaf forest. the Blue is where some of the North Central Forest extends into Eastern Washburn and Barron counties.

White Pine Tree Stand in the woods North of our house, White Pine tree stands are more rare then they are common around Clayton. This one is mixed with some other broad leaf trees.

here is some Broad leafed trees the woods south of our house. This is what most of the Forests look like here. Allot of Maple in here. also Ash and Poplar.
Though there are Forest here. most of the land you see looks like this. Farmland and fields. more trees off to the west.

Enjoy this Sunny weather!

Severe weather still Possible today.

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Severe Thunderstorms are possible in parts the 6 county area today, If storms do develop, the main threats will be Large Hail and Damaging winds. a Tornado is also possible. The storms Chances are due to a passing cool front. The best chance of Severe Thunderstorms will be east of a line from River Falls to west of Amery to near Minong.

Looking ahead, Very Hot weather is heading this way for the ending of the week. Thursday though Friday temperatures will be approaching 90.F Also there will be a chance of Severe Thunderstorms by Thursday night or Friday night and Saturday.

Severe Storms hit some places today.

Picture taken July 25th Clayton,WI

Severe Thunderstorms began moving into the area during the afternoon. they started moving into Western Burnett county. where they produced 0.75 inch hail just south of Grantsburg. then they continued moving southeast. which caused the NWS to issued a Severe Thunderstorm warning for Polk County including Clayton. hail the size of 0.75 inch was reported covering the ground in Frederic. the storm then got stronger as it moved into Barron county. Reports came in of Yards turning White in the City of Barron, I also herd corn was stripped bare just north of Barron. then the storm moved southeast over the Dallas Chetek areas. no reports there. Another line of storms went though southwest St Croix County. where they produced some severe wind dammage. Trees and power lines were reported down in Hudson and Houlton, also a tree down on a car was reported just northwest of River Falls, so some people will spend the weekend cleaning up. Weather should be Sunny and nice this weekend

Image from GRLeavel3

Link to local watches and warnings!!http://www.crh.noaa.gov/hazards/mpx

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch has been issued for Burnett...Washburn...Polk and Barron counties until 9:00PM

lilies July 22ND

Sunny quite weather will be the story the rest of day and for the day on Wednesday. Sunshine, and highs near 80.F is the forecast. with humidity creeping back up more on Wednesday. the next chance of Storms is on Thursday.

Here is a picture of the out side of our house, which has been completed! it sure does look nice!

Slight Risk

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Link to local watches and warning http://www.crh.noaa.gov/hazards/mpx

Slight risk of Severe Thunderstorms today all across the 6 county area. the main threats today are hail and damaging strait line winds. also there is a threat for tornado's but Large Hail seems to be the highest threat. storms will be scattered, and should form sometime after 1PM be on the lookout.

Very heavy rain and high winds hit the area

Very heavy rain July 19Th Clayton,WI

Very heavy rain hit the area Saturday afternoon. as a line of storms pushed in from the west Some of the storms were Severe. Here at Clayton. there was a big tree down in a field from strong winds, the highest wind gust on my weather station was 41MPH, we also had some small branches down in our yard. The Heavy rainfall was the big story on this storm in my area, we got over 1 inch of rain in about 40 minutes! You can even see the sheets of rain in the video above. The rain we got was much needed. There was Tornado Warnings issued to the west when the storms were forming, there were many areas of rotation, one went near Osceola.
When the storm was moving though here, the winds switched directions, from West to north. then northeast. Also it sounds like there is quite a Bit of wind damage in Southeast St Croix County. here are the damage reports

Tree blown down into field by strong winds, July 19th Clayton,WI. This tree damage was just south of our house.

5 SE Osceola 2 large trees down.

4 SSW Hammond,WI 1.00 inch hail

1 SE Clayton large Tree down

0.75 inch hail in Menomonie

1 N Spring Valley many hundreds of trees down at Eau Galle Reservoir

Some places got over 2 inches of rain from this storm. here are some rainfall totals across the area

Menomonie 2.37"

Amery: 1.49"

Clayton: 1.20"

Osceola 0.67"

Woodville 0.63"

LINK TO LOCAL WATCHES AND WARNINGS!!!! http://www.crh.noaa.gov/hazards/mpx

A Tornado Watch has been issued for Polk,Barron,St Croix and Dunn counities until 10:00PM

Rainy, but well below Average Rainfall for the season.

Cornfield Clayton,WI July 18Th



It has been wet lately but, We still need some more rain! over the past 2 days we only picked up 0.28 of rain just over a quarter inch. June and so far July has been quite Dry, June ended out over 1 inch below normal in rainfall, And so far this July we have only picked up 1.37 inches the Average for July is 3.93 inches nearly 4 inches of rain! Because of the lack of rain some creeks and streams are low, the Creek near my house is nearly gone, also the Ponds on our land are Very low,But some lakes are at some of there highest levels in years, for the last few years Lake Magnor, just south of Clayton, has been low but this year it is at a more Normal level, I also heard it has been much cleaner with less Algae! The reason the lakes are higher then last year is because of the Wet spring we had, and Above normal winter snowfall. The weather has gotten more active over the past few weeks which is great news! But we could use Rain because we are over 3 inches behind in rainfall. It has been wetter this year, and it's been raining more frequent. The corn looks like some of best corn I've seen. thankfully the rain has been frequent enough to keep the corn from drying up. We have not had too much rain here, But some places have gotten of 1 inch of rain these past few days, Hopefully the rain keeps coming.



Lilies Clayton,WI July 18Th



Flowers are looking great! My garden has never had so many blooming flowers!




Here is a Miniature rose I got from Becker's Store in Turtle Lake after Valentines day ( when they went on sale ), I bought the rose to see what it would do planted in the ground, it is looking great! and a cheap way for roses! I also have Yellow, Orange, and Red roses that I bought from the same store, last winter.

Severe Weather/ Odd morning clouds!

Clouds July 16th Clayton,WI

Many people woke up to odd clouds this morning across the area, I had some of my family call to make sure I was taking pictures of them, These clouds were like Nothing I ever seen before, My family also said they had Never seen clouds like these, many people saw swirling clouds and odd cloud formations as a storm front moved into the area.

Later there was some Severe Thunderstorms which produced hail just to my south, Reports include some 1.00 inch hail north of New Richmond. and 0.75 inch hail in Downing. Here We got just some heavy rain, which only amounted to 0.18 Some places in a line from Star Prairie to Sand Creek saw as much as nearly 3 inch's of Rain!

tomorrow there is should be a good chance at some more rain, I know we need the rain! some of this rain cloud be heavy, Some storms may also become Severe so watch out for these

Video of some loud thunder after a close strike just as a heavy cell moved in from the southwest.

Yesterday evening a Severe Thunderstorm fired up in Burnett and Washburn counties. near Minong in Webb Lake, power outages were reported from strong winds also very heavy rain! You could see the storm top and light very well down here in Southeast Polk County even though this storm was about 50 miles to my north! it was pretty cool.

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch has been issued for Polk,Barron St Croix and Dunn counities until 6:00PM

Statement from NWS

Severe Weather chances update

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There are some changes from yesterday. There still is a chance of Severe Storms in the south, Large Hail Damaging winds are possible along with the chance for tornado's, The best chance of seeing Severe storms will be south of a line from St Croix Falls to north of Clayton to Chetek. looks like they will form in the afternoon hours.

Hot Weather is fore casted for the area today many places will reach the low 90s. There is even the chance for some places to reach the Mid 90s this afternoon! Heat indices could be reaching to upper 90s today. A good day just to take it easy when outside.

Looking ahead there are chances for Severe Thunderstorms for the next 3 days, as a front wanders around the area.

Slight risk of Severe weather tomorrow

the SPC has a Slight risk of Severe Thunderstorms tomorrow for all of the 6 county area, At this point it looks like Large hail and Damaging wind gusts are possible with any severe storms that do turn severe. More on this tomorrow, Just something to watch.

Other then that Another Hot day is forecast ed with highs in the upper 80s, with some places reaching the low 90s!

Tornado Sirens July 11th Clayton,WI Can't see much of anything in the video, But you can hear the sirens this was taken just before the wind hit.

Line of Storms push across the area last night, A part of this line was tornado warned, and had Rotation, This storm started out over Osceola and pushed North of Amery then to the northwest of Clayton, There was a Tornado Warning issued for all of Central Polk County ( Inluding Clayton ) at the time. When I was watching the clouds, I could see a lot of low hanging clouds to the Northwest, there were some clouds that kind of looked like wall clouds, but it was hard to tell, the southern part of the Tornado warned storm hit Wanderoos, Amery, Star Prairie, Deer Park as well as Clayton. This storm did cause damage, Here at my place a 1 and a half inch pine tree top was snapped off, along with lawn furniture blow all the way across the lawn, It did get Very windy

Pine tree Top snapped off by wind.

There Was Rotation in that storm the moved from Osceola to north of Amery to north of Clayton, but No tornado's or funnels were report, but there was something going on there in thoughts clouds from what I saw, Also a line of damaging wind storms went across Burnett and Washburn counties that produced damage in thoughts areas, some places had over 60MPH winds. Here are the damage reports

60MPH Wind Grantsburg,WI

61MPH Wind 1 southwest of Webster,WI

Tree down Star Prairie,WI

Trees down across road 2 miles SE Deer Park,WI

A few tree topped Amery,WI

Lawn furniture blown across lawn Clayton,WI

Tree topped 4 S Almena,WI

6 to 8 inch's Branch's down Menomonie,WI

Trees down Alpha,WI

Taken just east of Clear Lake July 10th

There was Severe Weather in the South today, as well as right around here. First. Early in the day Severe Storms moved though Southern St Croix and Dunn counties, 0.75 hail was reported south of Downsville, Later on during the the day a storm fired up just to the east of Star Prairie, this storm moves southeast and produced golf ball sized hail just south of Amery, near golf ball sized hail was reported southeast of Ridgeland too.

Fridays outlook Image from http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/

Link to local watches and warnings http://www.crh.noaa.gov/hazards/mpx

Severe Thunderstorms are possible for tomorrow with a cold front, late in the day, a Line of severe thunderstorms could develop and move over the 6 county area, Large hail and Damaging winds will be the main threats, This is one of the higher chances of severe storms we have had in a while, so keep close watch.

Other then this Weather will b e Sunny HOT! and really Humid could be the hottest day of the season so far! most places will make it to the low to maybe even some mid 90s!

Turtle Lake Days/Centuria days this weekend, Chances of severe weather.

Turtle Lake Fair Days are this up coming weekend from Friday to Sunday, There will be a rides at the Village park like last year, and a Parade on Saturday There will also be live music at the park on Saturday, If you have some time stopping in Turtle Lake for Fair days is a perfect idea!

Please go here for more information on this event http://www.villageofturtlelake.com/Downloadable%20Forms/TL%20Fair%20Flyer%202008.pdf

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the Village of Centuria is also having Centuria Memory days this weekend with a Parade and other neat things to go to, For more information on Centuria Memory days go here http://www.centuria-wi.org/centuria-events.asp?optmember=662

WEATHER:

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there is a Slight chance of Severe thunderstorms tomorrow for all of the 6 county area, Large hail and strong winds will be possible Also, This is something to watch closely tomorrow. all this weather is moving in with a warm front.

Link to Watches and Warnings http://www.crh.noaa.gov/hazards/mpx

Link to severe weather outlooks http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/

Better chance of Severe Storms Friday along with Hot weather more on that tomorrow.

Severe Weather and heavy rain possible

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Link to local watches and warnings! http://www.crh.noaa.gov/hazards/mpx

There is a slight risk for Severe Thunderstorms for a part of the 6 county area mainly south of a line from Cushing to Stone Lake. Tornado's Large hail and Damaging winds will be possible in these areas Also with all the moisture around heavy rainfall will also be possible and even likely in some areas. The SPC Does have a 5% chance of tornado's out for places south of a line from Centuria to Haugen. Normally when the SPC issues a 5% chance there is normally at least 1 Tornado warning somewhere, So Keep on the lookout for severe thunderstorms this afternoon and evening.

Heavy Rain Clayton,WI

there was some storms today the developed just to the northwest near Balsam Lake and Turtle Lake these storms continued to develop and move south though Turtle Lake and Almena, Clayton got the westerns edge of the storm, This storm borough some Very heavy rainfall, we got half and inch of rain in about 10 minutes! That storm brought the heaviest rain so far this year, The radar estimates that areas around Prairie Farm and Dallas picked up over 2 inches!

Hottest day of the season so far across NW Wisconsin some places topped 90 for the first time this season here is a list of some of the highs around the 6 county area

Osceola 94.F

Clayton 91.F

Amery 91.F

Hudson 90.F

Siren 88.F

Spooner 85.F

Here's a picture of the water quickly ruining down the road after the storm This storm brought some huge raindrops!

Fridays outlook Image from http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/

Link to local watches and warnings http://www.crh.noaa.gov/hazards/mpx

Link to latest severe weather outlooks http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/

The SPC does have a slight risk for Severe storms for the area Sunday. Large Hail and damaging winds would be the main threats There could be a round of thunderstorms and rain moving though by day break Sunday morning, Then storms may re fire in the afternoon This would be the best time for severe storms. Hopefully we will get some rain, It has been hot and dry for weeks and now it's very dry and many areas need rain. I think some places will get some, at least once this upcoming week.

Looks like the weather pattern will become active this week. Chance of storms every day with highs in the 80s everyday Hopefully we will get some rain at least 1 of thoughts days.

Picture taken July 4Th Clayton,WI

Here is a picture of some fireworks at the family firework display at my aunts house, I had a good time, Hope you all had a good Independence Day!

4th of july weather.

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Weather for the 4Th of July looks Good. We will have sunny skies all across the area with highs reaching the mid to upper 70s so not too warm, or to cool! Friday night the forecast calls for clear skies with lows in the low to mid 50s So a nice day/night ahead. perfect for going to some of the fireworks displays that some of the communities are having I know Amery is having one, Chetek days are taking place this weekend also. Saturday The weather begin to get warm highs in the low to maybe some mid 80s with sunshine next chance of storms comes Sunday Have a happy July 4Th!

Hot Day Across NW Wisonsin

July 1st Clayton,WI

Link to local watchs and warnings http://www.crh.noaa.gov/hazards/mpx

Hot sunny dry day Across the area, some places reached 90.F It also was a bit muggy. I did get my station set up again today, and it reported the highest Temperature of the season so far! It is starting to get a bit dry out, with all the sun and hot weather so hopefully some rain will move in, We do have a chance of some storms tonight with a cold front. Some storms may produce hail and strong winds and may become Severe. so watch out for that Best chance of severe weather is in Washburn and Burnett counties. Places to the south may also see some strong storms tonight. Here is some reports of high temps today

Osceola,WI 90.F
Amery,WI 87.F
Hudson,WI 87.F
Clayton,WI ( my station) 86.F
Menomonie,WI 86.F
Barron,WI 85.F

The Highest Temperature in the state today was at Osceola with a high of 90.F lowest Temp was at Sparta where it reached 43.F