Chicago Flooding Event
July 18, 1996

Answer to Question 2
Lab Exercise

Question 2. What happens to this moisture pool between 0000 UTC on July 18 and 1200 UTC on July 18?
 





 
 
Answer.  The richer moisture shifts over northeastern Illinois and eastern wisconsin. There is still deep moisture present from the surface through 850 mb keeping, the flooding threat in place.


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