WINTER STORM WATCH
Warning Issue Date: 1117 AM CST TUE DEC 22 2009
...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM WEDNESDAY EVENING THROUGH
THURSDAY MORNING...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A
WINTER STORM WATCH...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM WEDNESDAY EVENING
THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING.
* PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN AS SNOW WEDNESDAY
EVENING...ESPECIALLY INLAND. WITH EASTERLY WINDS AND WARMER
TEMPERATURES OVER THE LAKE...PRECIPITATION WILL TRANSITION TO A
MIX OF RAIN...SLEET...AND SNOW EARLY THURSDAY MORNING. PERIODS
OF ALL RAIN ARE EXPECTED FOR THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND THURSDAY
NIGHT.
* SNOW AND SLEET ACCUMULATIONS WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH
THURSDAY...1 TO 3 INCHES.
* ICE ACCUMULATIONS OF ONE QUARTER OF AN INCH TO HALF AN INCH ARE
POSSIBLE...MAINLY INLAND...WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY
MORNING.
* WINDS...BRISK EAST WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WILL PERSIST THROUGH
MUCH OF WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY.
* HAZARDOUS TRAVEL ASSOCIATED WITH SNOW AND ICE COVERED ROADS IS
EXPECTED FROM WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A WINTER STORM WATCH MEANS THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR SIGNIFICANT
SNOW...SLEET...OR ICE ACCUMULATIONS THAT MAY IMPACT TRAVEL.
CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS.
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MRC/HENTZ
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