We have had several previous blogs outlining how ridiculously quiet this years severe weather season was across not only our area but most of the Midwest.  It was almost boring at times this summer in the StormTrak 9 weather center.  I’ve gotten accustumed to 10 a.m. till 2:00 a.m. days by the time May rolls around.  I don’t think I had one of those days this year.  The Fall/Winter edition of the N.W.S. Packerland Weather Newsletter has summed up this historically quiet period.

-Only 10 severe weather events(one inch hail or larger, or winds 58 mph and above, or tornado) occurred in the NWS Green Bay forecast area which includes much of our viewing area.  This is the fewest reports ever recorded in a season.

-For only the second time in history, no tornadoes were reported in the forecast area.

-For the first time ever, the N.W.S. office did not issue one Tornado Warning.

-For the first time in over 30 years of weather data, there were no reports of severe weather from May through July.  There was actually no severe reports from April 25 to August 2.  To me this is one of the craziest facts to believe.  This is the heart of our severe weather season in Wisconsin, especially June, and we didn’t have one severe thunderstorm in the N.W.S. Green Bay forecast area…..Wow!

Undoubtedly this was one of if not the quietest severe weather season ever on record.  It is however important to point out that this was the first year the new hail criteria of one inch was used.  In the past, the severe hail criteria was only 3/4 of an inch.  So it’s not exactly fair to compare this years numbers to the past.

Thanks Jeff Last, Linda Skowronski, Roy Eckberg, and Scott Cultice with the N.W.S. for providing us with Packerland Weather News

Meteorologist Brian Niznansky

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