Updated at 4 p.m. Sunday to include new times of advisories
A winter weather advisory has been issued by the National Weather Service, and that could put a little wrinkle in your Super Bowl revelry plans Sunday night, if not your Monday morning commute.
In Milwaukee and Ozaukee counties, the advisory will be in effect from midnight until 9 a.m. Monday. In Waukesha and Racine counties, it is in effect from 10 p.m. Sunday to 9 a.m. Monday.
According to the Weather Service, snow developing as part of an "Alberta clipper" system coming down from the northwest will begin between 9 and 11 p.m. Sunday.
Snow accumulations in southeastern Wisconsin are expected to reach between 2 to 5 inches on fairly light southwest winds of 5 mph to 10 mph.
Jeremy Nelson, a meteorologist with Patch's media partners at WISN-TV (Channel 12), predicts between 2 to 3 inches of snow in almost of the Patch coverage area. The Port Washington-Saukville area will likely only get 1 to 2 inches.
Still, drivers can expect rapidly deteriorating travel conditions due to accumulating snow. The periods of snow will cause some travel difficulties, including snow covered roads and limited visibilities later tonight and into the early morning hours of Monday, the Weather Service said.
Snow is a four lettered word.
Darwin Award Winner: "A Kenosha man was killed Thursday night when his vehicle slid across the Union Pacific railroad tracks in Somers and into the path of an Amtrak train. The driver, died after his Jeep Cherokee was struck by a northbound train just after 9 p.m., according to the Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department. Evidence at the scene indicated Johnson was traveling eastbound on Highway A and attempted to stop before the crossing as the train approached, according to a release from Kenosha County Sheriff’s Sgt. Horace Staples on Friday. By the time the driver tried to stop, it was too late, said an initial release from Kenosha County Sheriff’s Sgt. Bill Beth. Beth said the Cherokee slid about 150 feet off the slippery road, through the ditch and up onto the tracks. Staples said the fatality was weather related, and speed was a contributing factor of the crash. “He was going too fast and couldn’t stop, skidded and slid into a ditch and then over the tracks,” Staples said. “If he hadn’t been traveling as fast, he might have been able to stop. The road wasn’t snow-covered at the time, but, with all the rain, things started to ice up.” http://www.kenoshanews.com/news/speed_ice_factors_in_railroad_crossing_death_469269619.html
I was born and raised in south eastern Wisconsin, and I would hate to leave. I know the temperamental weather mother earth sends Wisconsin's way, and I accept it, not complaining about it, or acting like Chicken Little screaming "The sky is falling" anytime a storm swings this way. Grow up people, IT IS WISCONSIN.
Or A Honda fit ? Then well talk about dangerous advice and reading comprehension.
Wouldn't driving on a layer of packed snow or ice always be dangerous unless you were using chains and spikes? Otherwise it'd be like running with really nice boots on an ice rink.
Driving can be defined as dangerous on a sunny 80 deg day. The vehicle described above with its weight and features will fair extremely better than a small single wheel drive economy vehicle. Plenty of grip on snow packed roads. Point is don't complain about the roads if you personally don't have the equipment.
FYI, I own a Jeep Liberty with 4 wheel drive, and there have been times I had the tires slide when they hit a patch of ice, but I wasn't going too fast, I knew ice could be present under the snow, and was able to correct before anything bad happened. I know that snow hides dangers, like Ice, under it.
Honda Fit Or Caddy?
Saw a lot of 4x4 rice burners in the ditch going home.
http://milwaukee.craigslist.org/pol/3592648750.html Got to get the posting right.
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