Southeastern Wisconsin has received record amounts of rainfall recently. | jim gade/Unsplash
Southeastern Wisconsin has received record amounts of rainfall recently. | jim gade/Unsplash
FOX6 News meteorologist Tom Wachs is sounding the alarm about record rainfall to recently hit the Milwaukee area.
“We broke several rain records on Sunday in Milwaukee," Wachs posted on Twitter this week following the massive storm. "[There were] 4.78 inches of rain Sunday in Milwaukee, 5.57 inches total at MKE [airport] through Monday AM. Nearly 10 inches of rain reported in Racine.”
FOX6 Milwaukee reported flood warnings in effect across much of the area for several days, including the weekend, after days of heavy rainfall. While Milwaukee received nearly 5 inches of rain Sunday, Racine was swamped by more than 9 inches in a single day.
The 4.78 inches that hit Milwaukee broke the 22-year-old single-day city record of 2.96 inches. Most towns in the area received from 3 to 9 inches of rain. The downpour also set a record for total rainfall on any day in September, surpassing the eight-decade-old mark of 4.32 inches set on Sept. 8, 1941.
As the downpour raged, the Washington Post reported that several roads, including major highways, were heavily flooded and power outages had occurred across much of the southeastern region of Wisconsin. The water level of all local rivers and streams also rose.
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