Prediction, but by noon on sunday most of southeast wisconsin will have 35 of snow on the ground. While we wait for this weekends snow, our recent stretch of cold weather has been a economic boon for local ski hills including Little Switzerland in Washington County. Cbs 58s julie parise joins us live from little swiss in slinger with more. Julie . Were not expect snow until tomorrow. But you can see over my shoulder here that its already looking like a Winter Wonderland here in slinger. Take a look,. Theyve been making this snow since tuesday, so the hill here is already looking covered. Now that the pumping the snow out. The technology they use to make this stuff is advanced. There are 23 snow guns all over the hill blowing it out. Managers here can operate the amount of water and pressure from their cell phones. One of the managers tells me i think a lot of people think is real snow, uh is icey or tough to skn, i ot as nice as powder you have out west. Its great snow, its powertilled
Latesummer, but crews have been prepping for this specific storm starting on wednesday. Just in the last two hours, the department of public works promised us they are prepared. We are going to stick with our operations. We have a rollover plan and we want we make sure these streets are safe and passable. Adrienne and one number i want to go ahead and give you you probably heard it before, but you need to write it down at the beginning of the snow season. It is 286city. If you live in the city of milwaukee, it is a good number to have handy. Live in milwaukee, im adrienne pedersen, wisn 12 news. Toya snowy roads could be behind three massive interstate pileups across the country. The multivehicle crashes were in michigan, ohio and pennsylvania yesterday. The interstate was closed for hours in all three states. Be sure to have the free wisn mobile app ready to go this weekend. Youll find snow updates along with information about churches or businesses forced to close due to the snow. Pa
Package them. But that has all been resolved. A spokesman with the green party says hes pleased with the transparency in Milwaukee County. This is difficult stuff, we had some political reasons as to why. And again we did it not to the advantage of one candidate or the other but to assure that our Voting System works. Next up the county must submit its results to the wisconsin election commission. In the meantime president elect donald trump says hes wisconsin. According to his Campaign Website he will hold a thank you rally at the Wisconsin State Fair Expo Center on tuesday in west allis. The event is at 7 pm. And, tickets are on a first come, first serve basis. Weve posted the details on our website fox6 now dot com. Adlib to weather reaching into the low to middle 20s. Clouds increase overnight with lows in the teens. Two storm systems impact se wi this weekend the first bringing snow by afternoon evening saturday. The Second System will continue the snow throughout the day sunday a
Mak theres still areas of the lake taht are open water so we dont want to be out there. The Walworth County Sheriffs Office says theyll keep searching tonight as late as possible. Now to our big story, were in for some snow this weekend. We could see more than a half of foot when its all said and done. We have Team Coverage ahead of this wintery forecast. Fox 6s Myra Sanchick is live in milwaukee with what the city is doing to prepare. But we start with weather expert tom wachs. Hes been tracking the snow. He joins us from the weather winter storm watch for all of se wi from saturday night through sunday night increasing clouds tonight. It will be very cold with temperatures falling into the teens by sunrise. Mostly cloudy and quiet during the day saturday with highs in the low 20s. Snow moves in from the west on saturday evening. The snow will continue through the day sunday and taper off accumulation is forecast, lower amounts toward fon du lac county. Tonight increasing clouds. Cold
High 30 wind se 1020 mph the first major snowfall of season on the way. Milwaukee Officials Say they are. Fox6s Myra Sanchick has more on what the city is doing. Milwaukee Officials Say they are ready, prepared and will do whatever it takes to make the streets safe. As sure as the the snow falls each year, the day before that snowfall customers call. We sell a lot of salt, shovels, see more of it blifferts is one of many Hardware Stores now in the thick of it. People always procrastinate,put it off here we go the predictions are that soon the area will be in the thick of it. Wednesday brine was put on streets, an anti icing operation that is intended to stop this weekends snow from sticking. Its worked on the past on bridges, and now it is on major streets for the first time. Saturday we will be starting the operation by cali deploying 102 salt trucks to get into the districts, the residential streets and pre salt those areas plow blades are being mounted onto garbage trucks to get rea