Wisconsin could be hit by a tropical storm for the first time in at least 170 years.
First Alert Chief Meteorologist Steve Beylon believes it’s going to be a close call as to whether Cristobal will still be a tropical storm by the time it moves in.
He says it’s very rare for a tropical storm to make it to Wisconsin, because it gets its energy from warm ocean water, and loses its strength while it makes its way over land.
Cristobal has already been downgraded to a tropical depression.
Beylon says the state hasn’t had a tropical storm move through, since the National Weather Service started recording them in 1851, before the Civil War.
He says either way, the storm will bring one to three inches of rain to the area.
