How can you tell when it will stop raining, when the radar shows the weather going in a circle?

To prove it’s not just a glitch: It has been raining for literally 12hrs straight, it lightens up but hasn’t stopped.

Multiple apps show same pattern.

And we have a TON of flash flood warnings..

Oh, I just answered your headache Q, but here I see you probably are in a tropical weather system of some sort. Tropical storms and hurricanes are circular. The move in a circle and have some forward motion usually. If it stalls out it might not move forward for a while or very little and just circle around. Where are you?

If there is an eye, and the eye is staying off shore, or if you are on a small island, the system could hold together a long time, many hours or days. Over land it will break apart over time, but still can last a while.

No, I am in Wisconsin. The best way to describe this is to say look at a zoomed out radar over Wisconsin, Michigan, and Illinois.

A super exaggerated example would be the storm travelling thru chicago, then thru Indiana, then thru ohio, then Michigan, then Wisconsin back to Chicago and just none stop rotating.

Freeways are flooded and schools are closed due to flooding and no power. Ugh

Must be the jet stream and some other weather affect keeping that rain over you. The barometric pressure doesn’t look extremely low in your state, but yeah, it is lower than your usual rain probably. I didn’t look up what the pressure is typically there. Here’s a link to your pressure now. I never think about the barometer in states up north.

Is the news reporting on the pressure? Maybe there will be a lot of babies born today. Hopefully, there aren’t more emergencies. Some studies show more heart attacks, but I question that to being related to stress during storms like hurricanes. I don’t know how they collect that data.

https://imgur.com/gallery/L7q5xq0

heres a video of what it happening now

Once you see that final wrap around it’ll move out.

This happened because of the location of the low pressure system in relation to a warm front. The low pressure was just north of the warm front. Warm, moist air enters the area of low pressure and is pulled up and over the mass of cool air ahead of the warm front. This results in longer, steadier periods of rain.

What you are probably more familiar with is when a low pressure system is located just ahead of a cold front, the warmer, less stable air ahead of the front has the potential for thunderstorms and shorter, heavier downpours.