Saturday Late Afternoon or early evening. Light snow continuous saturday night and all day sunday before wrapping up monday morning. Highs on sunday will be close to the freezing mark in the lower 30s. By noon sunday most of southeast wisconsin will have 35 of snow on the ground with an additional 2 to 4 possible through sunday night. The snow looks to wrap up by the city also bracing for the snow. Preparing salt and plow trucks to hit the roads. Roads. The department of public works gave an update not long ago. On its plans. Cbs 58s amanda devoe joins us live with that part of the story. Amanda. The city wants you to know that crews will be out in full force to make sure the roads are safe to drive. The Milwaukee Department of operations started on wednesday. Crews are brining the streets with salt and water to keep the snow from sticking to the pavement. 102 salt trucks will be in the streets starting tomorrow. Dpw says 350 workers will be out over the course of the storm, and theyre
Filled with snow. Snow. Dpw briefed reporters about those preparations cbs 58s amanda devoe is live with the key points of the plan. Amanda . The city wants you to know that crews will be out in full force to make sure the roads are safe to drive. The Milwaukee Department of public works says antiicing operations started on wednesday. Crews are brining the streets with salt and water to keep the snow from sticking to the pavement. 102 streets starting tomorrow. Dpw says 350 workers will be out over the course of the storm, and theyre prepared to work 12 hour shifts. Dpw also says they are monitoring the storm, and will do whatever it takes to keep the roads safe, reminding drivers to be patient with plow trucks as they remove snow. Laura daniels, director of operations, dpw its important for us to get the snow moved and especially with a storm of this sizable predicted amounts that we dont leave snow there because itll just compound future storms. We need to get through this weekends s
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
The holiday email you could soon be getting about a delivery. Well tell you the one letter to look out for. Good evening. Its great to have you with us on a friday night. Its a whiteknuckle drive home for millions. Icy highways and several feet of snow in many places. Winter storm alerts in 19 lake effect snow, being measured in feet. And i90, the scene of the massive pileup in the last 24 hours. In portland, oregon, the sidewalks covered with ice. Heres adrienne bankert. The great lakes getting pummeled with high winds, even lighting and thunder snow. Pretty bad visibility. Reporter cars sliding off the roads in jordan, new york. Ive never put one in the ditch yet. Reporter this truck flipping over on interstate 90. A pennsylvania. Crews racing to pick people out. And 20 injured, 3 seriously, in ohio. And shut down the highway for more than 15 hours. And in portland, ice turning this school bus skidding off the road near vancouver. No one was hurt. And high winds knocking out power fo
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