Update 6/3/25 @ 4:40 p.m. – Updated map added. Little change in the rain forecast.

The National Weather Service Milwaukee/Sullivan Weather Forecast Office is predicting “rounds of showers and thunderstorms beginning this afternoon and lingering into Wednesday morning. The heaviest rain will fall tonight mainly from the WI/IL border through southeast WI. There is also a marginal threat for severe storms with gusty winds this afternoon.”

It appears that the Whitewater area could receive as much as 2″ of rain overnight.

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By the way, per Wikipedia, “The English-language idiom “raining cats and dogs” or “raining dogs and cats” is used to describe particularly heavy rain. It is of unknown etymology and is not necessarily related to the raining animals phenomenon.^[1] The phrase (with “polecats” instead of “cats“) has been used at least since the 17th century.^[2][3]

A rain of animals is a rare meteorological phenomenon in which flightless animals fall from the sky. Such occurrences have been reported in many countries throughout history, an example being Lluvia de peces, a phenomenon that has occurred many times in Honduras.^[1] One hypothesis is that tornadic waterspouts sometimes pick up creatures such as fish or frogs and carry them for up to several miles.^[1][2] However, this aspect of the phenomenon has never been witnessed by scientists.^[3]“