Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties

Thunderstorms produce Ironwood rainfall record

Students aboard a bus from Rhinelander, Wis., waited out rainfall and heavy fog Thursday morning in a visit to Saxon Harbor as the Gogebic Range continued to get battered by thunderstorms.

The students were treated to lightning flashes through the fog and a muddy Lake Superior as they got a lesson in northern Wisconsin weather.

The sky brightened later in the day, but not before dumping additional rainfall across the area.

The Ironwood weather station off Cloverland Drive recorded 1.6 inches of rain for the 24-hour period to 7 a.m. Thursday and it rained more after that, to be recorded with...