How did Milwaukee get this much rain? High humidity, strong winds and thunderstorms — all in the same place.
It was a perfect mixture for chaos.
Is it high moisture in the air? Control. Strong winds carrying moisture? Yes. Storm that interact with each other? I bet.
In places, a foot came up from the rain, left abandoned cars in the streets, left the basements under the water and broke the river response records and more on August 9, at the same time in the Milwaukee region.
“Everything came together to create heavy rain in that focused area, Mil said Milwaukee-Sallivan National Weather Service Meteorologist Sarah Marquardt, to create heavy rain on that focused area,” he said.
The changing winds led to an increase in moisture in the atmosphere, which merged with previous storms, and all triggered an additional storm tour.
“Everywhere with more than one tour or more thunderstorms, it was really thrown with more rain,” Marquardt said.
This meant that NWS’s two -inch prediction in Milwaukee was not only exceeded but was destroyed. Instead, the NWs thought that heavy things would fall to the west and central southern Wisconsin and rained 3-5 inches to the west of Madison.
This article was initially published in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Here is what Milwaukee causes a foot to go up the rain
