GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – Last week brought damaging and intense storms across the state and to northeastern Wisconsin.
And while some families are still cleaning up, local experts say we’re not in the clear.
“Unfortunately, I think we have a couple more weeks and months ahead here where severe weather might ramp up and get worse before it gets better,” says Kurt Kotenberg with the National Weather Service in Green Bay.
“We’re still in the month of May, the peak severe weather doesn’t start until July 4th and runs until most of August,” he adds. “So we have a long severe weather season ahead of us, lots more warnings, tornado warnings, severe thunderstorm warnings definitely possible this season.”
Kotenberg says especially following storms like the one that rolled through Kaukauna, community members should be ready.
“Make sure you have that safety and preparedness plan ready to go right now, use this as kind of a wake up that hey, severe weather season is here.”
It comes after Kotenberg said 2023 was the third least-active weather year in northeastern Wisconsin, and already this year is proving to be a different story.
Kotenberg also says with the La Nina climate pattern settling in later this summer, severe weather season could last even longer.
“The impact of that here in Wisconsin, a little bit of a tendency to be perhaps warmer and maybe a little bit of a wetter fall, so we could maybe see severe weather and tornados possibly into October more so than we’d usually see in wisco so maybe a little bit of a longer thunderstorm season here would be favored with la nina here for Northeastern Wisconsin.”
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