Thursday’s intense rains came down so hard and so fast that the storm created “its own little climate” in downtown Madison with new fronts streaming out from the central city, a meteorologist said today.
The cold front that went to the south dumped up to 6 inches of rain on southern Dane County later in the afternoon, but didn’t cause nearly as much flooding as in Madison, said Brian Olson of Weather Central.
“It was a storm that was pretty humbling,” Olson said, describing the downpour that wouldn’t budge out of the downtown sky for nearly an hour.
The UW campus bore the brunt of the flooding, with 79 buildings out of 300 on campus reporting flooding or water coming in through roofs and windows.