Very warm temps and strong storms.

Rolling Thunderhead just to the east of my house.



Today started out Very warm and humid Some places had there first 80.F degree readings of the season some Some places of the southern counties even reached the upper 80s ahead of a cold front that later produced strong storms. Here is a list of of the high temperatures reached across the area today, Menomonie 88.F, Amery 81.F, Osceola 81.F, Rice Lake 79.F, Clayton 78.F, Woodville 77.F, Spooner 73.F, Siren 70.F.

Pea sized hail. ( measured next to a dime )


Today's weather started off as Isolated storms in the afternoon one ended up Severe Warned in Southern Dunn county, but there was no reports of severe conditions. After 7PM storms really began to pop, The were scattered and numerous First then formed in western Barron county, then formed as far west as Amery. There were definitely a few strong ones on the radar, One was located just to the northwest of Dallas and the other was just southwest of Menomonie, The radar was detecting some hail, There was one report of penny sized hail North of Menomonie. Southern parts of the area actually saw some nice soaking rains and thunderstorms Southeast St Croix County, and Central Dunn County and Southeast Barron county saw the most rain, weather radar indicates that as much as 1 inch of rain fell in the Glenwood City to Sand Creek areas. While most of the area northwest of Dunn county reported less then .10

Here in Clayton, we had a couple a short downpours with 2 small storms with pea sized hail, There was also quite a bit of lightning flashes in these spot storms we got a total 0.2 of rain. We could definitely use some more.



Weather for Saturday is expected to be wet with scattered showers with highs in the 50s, For a full forecast please see the post Below. It is unclear at this time but it appears that another chance for Severe Thunderstorms may arrive by Sunday. It also looks like we just might get some heavier Rainfall Sunday. I may need to do a updated forecast for Sunday.