Chance for accumulating snow increasing Thursday morning

 

For the first time in what feels like forever, snow is in the forecast! We are almost halfway through the month of February and we haven't had a single day with accumulating snow. Our snow deficit for the season is now over a foot and the last time we had accumulating snow was January 23rd! After a mostly dry Tuesday and Wednesday we see some rain/snow mix roll in late Wednesday evening and night then that switches to all snow for Thursday morning.

Precipitation looks to start late Wednesday evening around 10 or 11 PM at the earliest with better chances around or after midnight. We could get a bit of rain/snow mix right at the onset but then that quickly switches to just snow for the Thursday morning commute. Most of the snow wraps up by the mid to late morning hours.

This will likely be a wet and slushy snow but it will likely accumulate. Most of the main roads and freeways are just wet and slushy but side roads could get snow covered at times. Right now about 1-3" of snow looks possible for most of southeast Wisconsin with some communities especially near the IL border not quite reaching the 1" mark. Expect some changes to the snow forecast the next 48 hours.

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