October recap

October went down in being the 4 th wettest on record...Records date back to 1949....This was EAU records since I didn't find nothing for Rice Lake...What is still rather interesting is with all the rain/snow we did get this past month,we are still in a severe drought as of 10/27/09..This has eased some,however Counties still in the severe drought would be as follows...Northern 1/3 of Barron County,Far Northeastern Polk County,and Far Northwestern Rusk County...Along with points North of of said Counties.....Counties still in the moderate drought.....Central Barron,rest of Eastern Polk County,and Central Rusk County....Areas in the abnormally dry area.....Far Southern Barron,Rusk,the rest of Polk County,Northern part of ST.Croix,Northern 1/2 of Dunn and Chippewa Counties..See the NIDIS website for more info...They are forecasting an ongoing drought with some improvement..Forecast runs through Jan 2010.....If time allows I will take some pictures of Silver lake today just to show you so far the rain/snow really has not helped out to much for the bigger and deeper lakes..The rainfall/snowfall did help out the smaller lakes,ponds,and smaller rivers....Main thing the rain/snow did help out with was to bring the soil moisture up!




So back to Barron County....Here is how things went down...We did have a very wet October..Well above normal in rain and snowfall....Temps were once again colder than normal.....There were no thunderstorm days ...There was 5 snow days in Oct.....I day with non thunderstorm wind damage....



SNOW DAYS.....



Oct 10 had 0.25 inches of snow..



Oct.12 3.25 inches of snow...



Oct.15 2.00 inches of snow...



Oct.23 3.3.75 inches of snow...



Oct 31..1.00 of snow...(fell over night,melted by 8-9 AM)....



Total snowfall for Oct stands at.. 10.25 inches of snow....All snow totals are from The Weather Center.....

Oct 30..Very strong winds made a visit to the area...This did cause some wind damage...See post below for that info....

Halloween forecast & some safe tips!

Halloween forecast....


For today light snow should becoming to an end this morning..Winds will be rather strong yet today,shouldn't as yesterday...However some gusts up to the 25 to 30 MPH range still possible.Highs today either side of 40 today...

We have issued a ghost and gobbling warning for this evening...The warning goes into effect from the hours of 5 PM and runs through 8 PM..Will talk about this in second or two....Temps for said time frame should be falling into the middle 30s....Winds will becoming lighter as we head through the evening hours....

***GHOST AND GOBBLING WARNING***



The Weather Center has issued a ghost and gobbling warning for this evening..From 5 PM through 8 PM...However there still may be some scattered Ghost and Goblins through 10 PM this evening....Main activity is forecast to occur from 5 PM through 8 PM...Not only are we forecasting ghost and goblins there will other creatures and things of such nature....If one has not prepared for this event you still have sometime...Things needed lots of candy...

***TIPS ON MAKING THIS A SAFE HALLOWEEN FOR THE KIDS***



Unlike the good old days were kids were free to roam from door to door,now days parents need to really be with their kids as we all know kids go missing from being abducted.This is why parents need to go with their kids,NOT your older kids as they could also end up being abducted..Yes even in this part of Wisconsin things can happen,Though many parents say it don't..I say wake up and see the light people....I can go on and on about this topic however AM not going to....Also parents will want to look at their kids candy/fruit before kids start eating it..Yes there are strange people out there that will poison or add things to the candy...Only take kids to houses of people you know!...Have them in so type of reflected clothing....I know this does put a damper on Halloween,but it needs to be said more often then not...Every year we read about this in the news or see it on TV.....

So with all that said....Have a safe fun filled Halloween!

Strong storm system effecting the area.

Strong storm system has been effecting the area has brought 1/2 inch to 1 inch rainfalls across the area yesterday and through out the over night hrs...This system also has brought in warmer air to the area...However temps are slowly dropping here at the office....High was 59° at 10 AM this morning now down to 57°...This system also has brought in some very low pressure readings....Here we are now down to 29.22 and still falling....The lowest reading I find through out my FA is Superior...29.08...The next lowest pressure reading I found is Siren 29.13....


This system also has brought very gusts winds to the area....Winds have been gusting up to 25 to 30 MPH..Highest wind gusts so far have been from points East of Siren and Cumberland...We winds have been gusting in the 30 to 40 MPH range this late morning into the this afternoon...At 1:00 PM The highest winds gusts I see are up in Ashland with 38 MPH,Rice Lake has wind gusts up to 31 MPH here at the office 6 miles Northwest we have wind gusts at 34 MPH as of 1 PM....See my post below for damage pictures caused by the winds...This morning 10:45 to 11:10 I'm sure winds were gusting close to 45 to 50 Plus MPH..To cause trees to snap like I saw....Just checked my weather station for the wind gusts it was 51.9 MPH @ 10:47 AM....
 
Just to show you how fast the pressure is falling we are now down to 29.20 MBS...

NON THUNDERSTORM WIND DAMAGE

Left work at 10 Am this morning had to make a few stops then headed home...Drove through a very heavy rain shower...Then hit very highs winds...Got on HWY V saw some 4 to 6 inch tress down...Did call that into the NWS...Got on my road and saw like 4 of the neighbors calf hutches were blowing across the road into the ditch on the other side,with one still part way on the road...Called that into the NWS....Help moved the calf hutches back to were they belonged....Got home and had a 6 inch tree snapped off about a 3/4 down or 1/4 up....Did get my camera and went back out to HWY V and got pictures,also pictures from my yard...Speaking of which there are many tree branches down again....

EST.Rainfall from radar data

As you can see most of my forecast area did pick up between 1/2 inch to around an inch of rain..From the radar view of EST STP(storm total precipitation)..Here at The Weather Center we picked up 0.83 inches of rain

Site update/Website update also...

While this morning still sick but feeling a little better Am going back to work tomorrow thank God for that as I'm going crazy being at home this long,Not a good way to waste vac.time but what can one do..Anyway being bored out of my mind I decide to make some big changes to this blog...Some of the changes that were made this morning are as follows...A new forecasting template,that I designed in another program...This had appeared the other day,however I added to it,as the Northern,Central and Southern area forecast..Had many emails about making the forecast easier...So that should help...Still working on the forecast icons,as of right now still not happy with them,but slowly coming along..May work on that through out this long boring day,as I don't have a headache....Also went through and changed the color of my blog....Added a temperature converter in the bottom part of the blog..So big changes did happen and this will be ongoing for sometime...
WEBSITE UPDATE..
Did also update my website yesterday...Added August 8th and 19th pictures...

The forecast for Western/Northwestern WI

Will try to get through this,as Am still sick.....Forecast problems for today through Saturday....Rain chances along with a few thunderstorms,heavy rainfall is possible.Winds tonight and Friday could become strong..Then snow chances Friday night into Saturday...Lots to talk about this forecast cycle.....

***CURRENT CONDITIONS***

This morning we find temps rather warm,from the middle 40s to the lower 50s....Warm spot is found in Siren with 56° the cool spot is Ashland coming in at 44°....Thinking the Siren station is having some problems compared to the rest of the stations....Dewpoints have rose into the middle to upper 40s across the FA...There is some fog around the area...Stations that are reporting fog are as follows...Ladysmith,New Richmond,Rice Lake,and Osceola...Winds range from calm to around 10 MPH from the E/SE....Radar is showing some returns through out the FA,however ATTM nothing is being reported in the SFC OBS....

***SFC ANALYSIS***

SFC charts this morning shows a features of interests...First one being a 1009 MB low pressure system centered over Central Manitoba Canada...Stationary front reaches from said low down through Eastern ND and SD into NE....The main area of interest this morning is a 999 MB low pressure system over Southern KS along with a 1002 MB low over CO with yet another low pressure over TX....Meanwhile we find a 1022 MB high pressure system centered over the OH Valley....

***SFC/MID/ UPPER LEVEL DISCUSSION***

Looking at the 500 MB chart....The upper level low is centered over New Mex this morning..50 to 60 KTS jet kicking into the area this morning from the Southwest...As this upper level low moves North/Northeast upper level jet is forecasted to increase to 125 to 150 KTS over the area...Looking at the 300 MB charts we find the upper level low a little more West and North,however winds at this level flowing into the FA around 80 KTS winds are forecasted to increase to around 150 KTS by Fri afternoon from the SW....Meantime the 850 MB charts showing winds from the South at 20 to 25 KTS this morning as we head into this afternoon winds increase to 35 to 40 KTS from the South/Southeast...So rather strong upper level support in place with this storm system....At the SFC using the GFS/ECMWF/NAM....Did do some blending for this forecast...Models have trended with a more South track than before and slower in moving the storm system....
However this really has not changed things to much...Big change is the dry slot that was forecasted to shut down the rain for tonight should be shunted off to the East of the FA,meaning higher rain chances for the area tonight into Fri....

SFC low is forecasted to lift NE into the Central Plains by this evening/tonight....By time 06z Fri hits the low should be in SW MN and should be around 993 MBS..By 12z said low should be in West Central MN(around the hump area) MBS drop to around 990-992..This low will also push an occluded front into my Western/Southern FA By 00z Sat said low races for the NE part of MN/Western Lake Superior..This will have pushed said front through the entire area....Meanwhile a cold front will be working it's way through the FA...Low pressure is forecasted to deepen to around 984 MBS by this time...The track of this system is still somewhat in the air still..PWATS do increase to around 1.00" to as high as 1.50" Thinking as of right now this may be a little high,nevertheless still look for areas of heavy rainfall,thinking is to run with a widespread 1/2" to 1.00" of rain a few areas could see more with any thunderstorms....Speaking of thunderstorms....With LLJ forecasted to become stronger and destabilization forecasted by this afternoon,along with LIS down to 0....Should see a few thunderstorms through out the day into this evening.....Temps will be mild through Fri morning and then should be dropping through out the day......

***FORECAST FOR THE NORTHERN AREAS***

Today rain will become likely under cloudy skies winds from the SE from 5 to 10 MPH with gusts up around 20 MPH.Highs today around 50...Tonight rain likely temps holding if not going up a degree or two 50 to 52...South/Southeast winds around 10 MPH with gust up to 20 MPH..
Friday a chance of showers with temps slowly falling through out the day highs start in the 50s falling to the middle 40s by late afternoon.Winds becoming SW/W around 10 to 15 MPH with gust up to around 20 MPH..Friday night cloudy with a chance of rain/snow showers become all snow showers after midnight...Lows in the 30s...West winds around 10 to 15 MPH with gusts around 20 to 25 MPH...Sat shall remain cloudy with highs around 40 Sunday rain and snow showers move back into the area..With all snow showers Sunday night with lows right around 30....

***FORECAST FOR THE CENTRAL AREAS***

Today cloudy with showers and few thunderstorms likely SE winds 10 to 15 MPH with gusts around 20 MPH..Highs today in the lower to middle 50s..Tonight rain likely maybe a thunderstorm early...Lows around 50 with S/SE winds around 15 to 20 MPH with gusts up to 25 MPH...Friday Cloudy windy highs in the middle 50s then falling through out the day,there is a chance of rain showers through out the day...S/SW winds 15 to 20 MPH with gust from 25 MPH to around 30 MPH..Friday night cloudy with a chance of rain and snow showers becoming all snow showers after midnight...Lows in the 30s still gusts winds,up to 20 to 25 MPH...Saturday cloudy highs lower 40s. lows in the lower 30s once again...Sunday..PC in the Northern Central areas with PC to mostly sunny rest of the area,highs in the lower to middle 40s with lows in the lower to middle 30s.....

***FORECAST FOR THE SOUTHERN AREAS***

Today..Showers and a few thunderstorms likely highs under cloudy skies in the middle to upper 50s with E/SE winds 10 to 15 MPH with gusts up to 20 MPH..Tonight lows in the middle 50s with showers and a few thunderstorms likely..Winds 15 to 20 MPH with gust from 20 to 25 MPH..Friday a chance of showers with cloudy skies.Winds S/SW from 10 to 20 MPH with gust around 25 to 30 MPH.Highs start out in the upper 50s then fall through out the day..Friday night,a chance of rain and snow showers with lows in the middle 30s winds still rather gusty...SW/W from 10 to 20 MPH with gusts up to 25 MPH...Saturday,mostly sunny with highs in the middle 40s with lows in the upper 30s....

***EXTENDED FORECAST MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY***

Look for a dry period..May see some rain/snow showers in my Northern areas on Monday dry elsewhere's look for highs ranging from Lower 40s North to lower to middle 40s Central and middle to upper 40s South...Lows in the middle to upper 20s North to upper 20s to lower 30s Central to around 30 South....