Enter today to win some great prizes from the R-Store!

Are you ready to enter a contest with truly epic prizes?  It’s your turn to take a hand at forecasting with our Storm Track 9 “Guess the first inch of snowfall in Wausau” contest!

It’s simple.  What date do you envision as the first day of the year where we see at least one inch of snow fall in Wausau?  Send in your guess by midnight on September 30^th and then sit back and wait. 

Guess the right date and we’ll enter you into a drawing for some very cool prizes.  First place takes home a year’s worth of FREE car washes courtesy of the R-Store (that’s a whopping $500 value!) plus a $50.00 R-Store gift card.   

Second place goes home with a $150.00 R-Store gift card, third place a $100.00 R-Store gift card and fourth place enjoys a $50.00 R-Store gift card.  And everyone else who picks the correct date will get a free premium car wash courtesy of the R-Store. 

So how do you enter?  It’s a snap.  Follow this link to our Storm Track 9 homepage.  It has all the details you’ll want to see.  Follow the banner link directing you to the contest where you can enter online. 

Have your cell phone in hand?  That works too!  Text the word “Snowfall” along with your guess to “28214”.  Or if you want to help keep the Postal Service afloat, you can mail in your guess to:

Good luck!

Posted under Community, Environment, Nature, Seasonal Items, Snowmelt 2011, Winter Weather

At least three rainfall records have been broken in Wisconsin thanks to Thursday’s band of slow-moving showers and thunderstorms. 

Portions of Wood and Portage County were hit particuarily hard with the rain where many communities reported flooded streets and soggy basements.  According to the National Weather Service records Wisconsin Rapids recorded a hefty 3.2″ of rain at the airport.  That beat the city’s previous record for July 28th of 2.38″ set in 1990.  

Stevens Point had many reports of urban street flooding when 2.45″ inches fell on Thursday, demolishing the city’s previous rain record for July 28th.  The old record was just 1.82″ set 35 years ago in 1976.   

Though the record that will be in the books stands at 2.45″, many people received far more rain.  Several Stevens Point area residents recorded nearly 4″ in their backyards.  A storm spotter in Plover reported 1.92” falling in just 55 minutes!

After the band of rain cleared Portage County it headed towards Green Bay.  While there it poured 2.25″  on Austin Straubel International Airport.  That knocked off the previous record of 2.18″ which had stood for 58 years since 1953!

Posted under Community, Nature, Records, Severe Weather, Storms, Weather History, Weather NEws