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Omaha Steve

(99,679 posts) Mon Mar 23, 2015, 06:42 PM Mar 2015

Last blast of winter? Up to 15 inches of snow in Midwest

Source: AP

PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, Wis. (AP) — Spring came falling down Monday on winter-weary residents in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois and Iowa with more than a foot of new snow in some areas.

Schools in southwestern Wisconsin and southeastern Minnesota canceled classes as snowplows hit the highways and streets and the locals fired up their snow blowers or brought out their shovels for another round of snow.

The National Weather Service measured 15 inches of snow in the Grant County, Wisconsin, community of Fennimore and 13 inches in neighboring Crawford County. Decorah, Iowa was dealing with 11½ inches of snow, while 10 inches fell in Rochester, Minnesota. A sprinkling of snow disrupted rush hour traffic in Chicago.

The accumulating snow stands in contrast to a week ago, when temperatures hit the 70s in some spots.

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Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ced16e62e07e4c4fb56d6f5f57271a8a/15-inches-snow-midwest-last-blast-winter

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Last blast of winter? Up to 15 inches of snow in Midwest (Original Post) Omaha Steve Mar 2015 OP

We had to close school today. The geography Lifelong Protester Mar 2015 #1

My sincerest sympathies..we had snow on the first day of Spring in CT. :( Jefferson23 Mar 2015 #2

While it isn't snowing (yet) Michigan is frost-bitten Demeter Mar 2015 #3

Your snowdrops will come through this fine Botany Mar 2015 #5

I feel guilty for laughing, but I howled Yo_Mama Mar 2015 #9

Come to Central New York late snow storm whistler162 Mar 2015 #4

5 inches is a sprinkling of snow in Chicago Paulie Mar 2015 #6

Will it melt in time for April 2nd? android fan Mar 2015 #7

It will be like 70F on Wednesday Paulie Mar 2015 #8

Lifelong Protester

(8,421 posts)

1. We had to close school today. The geography

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Mon Mar 23, 2015, 06:47 PM

Mar 2015

here (in Western WI) works against us. Drove through Fennimore yesterday, and it was just starting to snow. Later, we were a part of a 10 car 'caravan' going about 20 miles and hour through the snow in Northeast Iowa. It was a white out!! Cars STRADDLING the ditches (meaning they must have slid air born OVER the ditch). This was about 2:30 in the afternoon. A few miles from Lacrosse-no snow! Then it started here about 7:00 PM. At least 8" here....

Jefferson23

(30,099 posts)

2. My sincerest sympathies..we had snow on the first day of Spring in CT. :(

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Mon Mar 23, 2015, 07:09 PM

Mar 2015

Demeter

(85,373 posts)

3. While it isn't snowing (yet) Michigan is frost-bitten

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Mon Mar 23, 2015, 07:40 PM

Mar 2015

My poor snowdrops, which grew and bloomed under 6 inches of ice and snow, are fully revealed, curled up, blue and shivering in the overcast freezing temperature of the day....and so am I.

The only thing depressing the suicide rate around here is lethargy.

Botany

(70,544 posts)

5. Your snowdrops will come through this fine

Reply to Demeter (Reply #3)

Mon Mar 23, 2015, 08:18 PM

Mar 2015

n/t

Yo_Mama

(8,303 posts)

9. I feel guilty for laughing, but I howled

Reply to Demeter (Reply #3)

Tue Mar 24, 2015, 12:41 PM

Mar 2015

"The only thing depressing the suicide rate around here is lethargy."

Got some sort of flu, got stuck in the Midlantic, and got to celebrate the first day of spring with snowfall and a fever. You just exactly described my state.