Oh the Winter of 1979

It was this day in 1979 we reached a milestone in snow depth for the city.

Sitting on the ground, 33 inches of snow. This coming off a fresh nearly ten inch snowfall on what was already a very snowy season. By today's date we had picked up 33.3" of snow so far that January. That was coming off a December that packed 27.9". Even November delivered 5.3" of snowfall. Each month getting more than double the normal snowfall. Each month much colder than normal, so as the winter days rolled on, the snow stuck around without much warmth to melt anything away. That winter season ended up with nearly 83 inches of snow. For perspective our normal winter snowfall is a few flakes over 48". That winter remains 7th snowiest in Milwaukee's records. And the record snow depth from 1979 continues to hold the record space from January 17th to February 19th. And now for today's snow depth check up. Zero. And there's not much for accumulating snow in the next week. 

I'm meteorologist Rebecca Schuld