The lack of thunderstorm activity as of late has contributed to the rapidly worsening drought situation. An example of the lack of thunderstorms can be found by totaling up the number of hours each month that the Milwaukee, Wisconsin ASOS has reported thunderstorm (TS) activity within its METARs. The featured chart shows this year's total along with a crude long term monthly average. The zeros for May and June are remarkable considering the very active April shown with a value well above climatology. The weather forecast models continue to hint that perhaps our messed up weather pattern will shift to something more resembling June next week, but it seems we have been hoping for this shift for the past three weeks. So for completeness with the feature title, the last TS report from Milwaukee was back on 20 April, over two months ago!

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