Lake snow brushes city, buries Milwaukee

The biggest calendar day snowstorm to hit Milwaukee in half a century buried Wisconsin's
largest city and a number of its southern suburbs under as much 14.4 inches of snow
Sunday night and Monday. A calendar day snow of that intensity hasn't occurred there since
16.7 inches on Feb. 10, 1960. The potent lake-effect snow setup that hit Sunday and Monday
left as much as 2.5 inches across sections of northeast Illinois from Orland Hills and
Palos Park north to Midway Airport and Gurnee. For 15 hours, a concentrated north/south
band of snow stalled over eastern Milwaukee and Racine Counties, producing waves of intense
snowfall that slashed visibilities to as little as a quarter of a mile. Visibilities
reflect snow intensity and those observed in Milwaukee occur only in the heaviest snow
systems.
East Coast residents were hit by the season's biggest snow -- a system that produced as
much as 14.5 inches in a corridor from Missouri and Tennnessee up the East Coast.

COLDEST MARCH OPEN HERE IN 12 YEARS
The opening two days of March included back-to-back 22-degree highs Sunday and Monday.
The two day average of 18 degrees made it the coldest March open since 1997.
--Tom Skilling, Chief Meteorologist, WGN-TV/Chicago Tribune