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Overview

Moderate to heavy snow moved into southern Wisconsin late Saturday evening, pivoting over the area and lingering through Sunday morning. By Sunday afternoon a few moderate lake effect bands redeveloped and brought additional snowfall to Jefferson, Waukesha, Walworth, Milwaukee, Racine, and Kenosha counties. The highest snowfall totals from this event occurred near Lake Michigan where a few lake effect bands developed overnight Saturday into Sunday. Snowfall totals within this band of heavy snow ranged from 6 to 10 inches. Away from Lake Michigan snowfall totals were lower and generally ranged from 3 to 5 inches with a few higher observations mixed in. To the north in central Wisconsin snowfall totals were between 1 to 3 inches. Persistent east to northeasterly winds resulted in drifting and blowing snow with 1 to 2 foot drift noted in many locations from the ongoing snow combined with snowfall from earlier in the week. This drifting snow was observed across much of southern Wisconsin, which made snowfall measurements very difficult. The heavier and wetter snow that was observed caused plenty of traffic issues despite it being a weekend.

 

Photos & Impacts

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About 9 inches of snow, as of 2:15 p.m. on the south side of Milwaukee.

(Near General Mitchell International Airport)

 

Around 6 inches of snow, as of 1:30 p.m. in Lake Geneva.

 

 

 

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