Ramblings of a Graduate Student

Last night about this time, the meteorological community was abuzz discussing then Tropical Storm Bonnie. However, since last night Tropical Storm Bonnie made landfall in the Miami, FL vicinity and has subsequently weakened to Tropical Depression. Because Tropical Depression does not appear to be very noteworthy at the moment (in fact, @ryanvaughan has described Bonnie as “Rain With A Name ©”) tonight I’ll mention another area of heavy rain.

Currently heavy rain associated with strong thunderstorms area developing to the south and southwest of southern Wisconsin. This area of showers and thunderstorms is moving northeast and will move into southern Wisconsin in the next several hours. This is important because this area experienced significant flash flooding last night as slow moving thunderstorms repeatedly moved over the same area. The city of Milwaukee, WI had almost 8″ of rain fall in a couple hours. Milwaukee, W joined Oklahoma City, OK; Nashville, TN; Louisville, KY; and Atlanta, GA as cities major cities experiencing record/historic flooding within the past 12 months. I hope the residents of southern Wisconsin heed all instructions from emergency personnel and remember to “Turn Around, Don’t Drown“!