
Drought Persists Across Much Of The U.S.
Drought conditions expanded again this week, with more than 100 million people now living in areas experiencing drought.
# SUMMARY -------------------- The National Weather Service in Milwaukee/Sullivan has issued a - Flash Flood Warning for... Northeastern Sheboygan County in east central Wisconsin... - Until 900 AM CDT. - At 556 AM CDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing heavy rain across the warned area. Between 1 and 3 inches of rain have fallen. The expected rainfall rate is 0.5 to 1.5 inches in 1 hour. Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 2 inches are possible in the warned area. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly. # DETAILS -------------------- HAZARD Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms. SOURCE Radar indicated. IMPACT Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban areas, highways, streets and underpasses as well as other poor drainage and low-lying areas. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLASH FLOODING INCLUDE Sheboygan, Plymouth, Sheboygan Falls, Howards Grove, Oostburg, Kohler, Elkhart Lake, Waldo, Glenbeulah, Johnsonville, Gibbsville and Haven. ISSUED AT Friday, September 4, 2026 at 5:56 AM CDT ISSUED BY National Weather Service Milwaukee/Sullivan WI HEADER BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED | Flash Flood Warning # PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS -------------------- Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood deaths occur in vehicles. Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
# HEADLINE -------------------- FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 830 AM CDT THIS MORNING # DETAILS -------------------- WHAT Urban area and small stream flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected. WHERE Sheboygan County in east central Wisconsin... WHEN Until 830 AM CDT. IMPACTS Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas. ADDITIONAL DETAILS - At 528 AM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to thunderstorms. This will cause urban and small stream flooding. Between 1 and 3 inches of rain have fallen. - Additional rainfall amounts of 0.5 to 1 inch are expected over the area. This additional rain will result in minor flooding. - SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE - Sheboygan, Plymouth, Sheboygan Falls, Howards Grove, Oostburg, Kohler, Cedar Grove, Random Lake, Elkhart Lake, Greenbush, Cascade, Adell, Waldo, Glenbeulah, Johnsonville, Hingham, Gibbsville, Batavia and Haven. - http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood ISSUED AT Friday, September 4, 2026 at 5:29 AM CDT ISSUED BY National Weather Service Milwaukee/Sullivan WI HEADER Flood Advisory # PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS -------------------- Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood deaths occur in vehicles. # AREAS AFFECTED -------------------- Sheboygan WI
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There is a Marginal Severe Storm Risk for your location. Continue reading for today's outlook from the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center. -------------------- National Severe Storm Outlook THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING ACROSS PART OF THE MID ATLANTIC INTO MIDDLE OHIO VALLEY...AND ACROSS PARTS OF THE UPPER MIDWEST SUMMARY Scattered strong thunderstorm development, posing mainly a risk for severe wind and hail, remains possible into the overnight hours across parts of the Mid Atlantic and Upper Midwest into the Great Lakes. Mid Atlantic A convectively generated or augmented mid-level perturbation continues to migrate east-southeastward across the upper Ohio Valley, toward the northern Mid Atlantic, along the southern fringe of broadly cyclonic flow overspreading the Northeast. This continues to provide support for a clustering of stronger convective development currently in a corridor across east central Ohio into south central Pennsylvania. Although this activity appears to have waned some in intensity from earlier, updraft inflow emanating from a more moist environment, along and south of a diffuse remnant outflow boundary across the central Maryland through Delmarva Peninsula vicinity, might reinvigorate activity later this evening into the overnight hours. Upper Midwest into Great Lakes region Convective evolution into and through the overnight hours remains a bit unclear. An initial cluster of convection, supported by a short wave impulse now progressing toward the Minnesota/Ontario border vicinity and Lake Superior, is undergoing substantial weakening as inflow becomes more stable to the cool side of a quasi-stationary frontal zone, which roughly extends from the Red River Valley through southern Great Lakes region. Upstream, near the crest of building mid/upper ridging, lower/mid-tropospheric warm advection is supporting scattered renewed thunderstorm development across northwestern and west central Minnesota. Closer to the frontal zone, where the inflow environment is characterized by moderate to strong instability, there still appears potential for the evolution of a small organizing cluster across the Brainerd MN vicinity through mid to late evening. As this progresses eastward, it is not clear that this will be maintained overnight. A strengthening southwesterly low-level jet may focus additional upscale growing thunderstorm development downstream, across parts of northeastern Wisconsin into Lower Michigan, but, elevated to the cool side of the frontal zone, it is not clear that the environment will support more than very limited potential for severe hail and wind.
Pollen Index: 8.5 Pollen Level: medium-high Predominant Pollen: Ragweed, Chenopods and Nettle. Based on past pollen counts and expected weather conditions, pollen levels for Saturday will be rising in the high range. This increase is due to seasonally normal weather conditions which are favorable for the production and dispersal of pollen.











