North of Milwaukee, suburbs such as Grafton and Brown Deer reported between 3 and 5 inches of snow. Just after noon, Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport had officially tallied 9.5 inches of snow, according to the weather service. The accumulation totals grew to the south, with a foot of snow in South Milwaukee. That's also why lake-effect accumulation totals vary so much.Īs of early Tuesday morning, Milwaukee's lakefront appeared to be the northernmost point of the storm's substantial snowfall, with almost 7 inches reported at the Port of Milwaukee as of 5 a.m. A measurement west of Racine tallied 16 inches.įorecasting lake-effect snow is notoriously difficult because it is impossible to pinpoint the areas where the heaviest snow bands will set up. The town is in Jackson County, about 10 miles southeast of Osseo, Wis. The Village of Wind Point in Racine County was reporting 17.3 inches of snow. The lake-effect snow left widely scattered totals throughout the area, according to the weather service. So far this winter season, the total snowfall for Milwaukee was closing in on 4 feet. Snow totalsĪs of Tuesday afternoon, there were 24 inches of snow sitting at Mitchell International Airport - the deepest snow depth recorded in Milwaukee since January 2001. where we get these heavier lake-effect snow bands that set up over us and give us double-digit (in inches) snowfall totals,' he said. Lake-effect snow usually happens a couple of times every winter in southeast Wisconsin, Kavinsky said.īut, 'It’s normally not this heavy. That sent lake-effect snow bands that had been hanging over the open waters of Lake Michigan back toward southeast Wisconsin, said Marc Kavinsky, a lead forecaster at the weather service office in Sullivan. 'Lake-effect snow is hanging tough along the southeast Wisconsin shoreline bringing moderate to heavy snow to southern Milwaukee, and eastern Racine and Kenosha counties,' the weather service said in a statement issued late Tuesday morning.Īll this snow was the result of a powerful winter storm that moved across the nation's midsection to the south of Wisconsin.Īs that storm moved through, the wind shifted and began blowing from the northeast. , 1:22 AM, WI-OC-15, Oconto Falls 1.0 SE, 0.84, NA NA NA, NA NA NA, WI, Oconto, View. The snow that began Monday night along the Lake Michigan shoreline just kept coming through the night and into the early afternoon Tuesday. Tuesday, the National Weather Service said. The warning was canceled about an hour early. Just before 10:40 a.m., the winter storm warning for southeastern Wisconsin along Lake Michigan was extended until 3 p.m. Our snow totals atlas has a list of cities in the United States to help you find the recent snowfall of any location in the country.By sunrise on Tuesday, up to 11 inches of lake-effect snow had fallen in parts in Milwaukee County. You can use your current location to quickly get a sense of the current snowfall in your area or you can search for any address or city to see the snowfall in that area. You can also view the snowfall forecast for the next two days, and see a map of the recent snowfall in your area.

You can view the snow accumulation, snow depth, and snowfall for your recent winter storms as well as nearby snow reports from weather stations across the country.

The data is updated throughout the day as station readings are reported, usually no more than once an hour. This site pulls data from multiple different sources of data from the National Weather Service and the National Weather Service NOHRSC to create the easiest way to find the most accurate snowfall data in your area. This site attempts to correct that by combining and simplifying data from the National Weather Service and the NOAA. Weather websites are very good at reporting how much snow is forecast for the next day or week, but often make it difficult to see what the actual snowfall was at the end of the storm.

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