This winter has been the most "wintry" winter we've experienced in years. We've had the coldest temps in seven years during January and snow chances have stayed steady. Ever since a snow after Thanksgiving, we've had consistent light snow chances throughout the rest of winter. In fact 51% of our winter days since the start of November have had at least a trace of snow!
All of that snow has added up as well. Season snow to date as of February 10th is at 35.7" which is three inches above average. It's a big change from the winter of 2024-2025 when we had barely picked up a foot of snow by this point of the season.
The last time we had this much snow by this point of the season was back in the winter of 2013-2014 when we had over ten inches more with 46.3" of snow.
We have also gone a number of days with at least an inch of snow on the ground. Over the weekend snow depth got as has as 5" in Milwaukee. As of Tuesday morning, that snow depth is down to 3". There is usually a 24 hour delay on the snow depth report and we did see lots of melting on Tuesday with grass starting to show in some areas. More snow will melt Wednesday with lots of sunshine most of the day.
But it looks like that pattern is finally changing and we are getting a break from the snow. We have stayed dry since a light snow early Sunday morning. And there are no likely snow chances over the next week. We will watch a weak storm system to our west in Iowa moving into Illinois for Thursday but the chances we see anything from that are only about 10%. Otherwise, the next snow, or in general precipitation, might not happen until the middle of next week.
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