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A winter storm warning has been issued for much of southern and northeastern Wisconsin with places like Madison, Milwaukee and Green Bay expected to get between 6 and 10 inches of snow. The National Weather Service expects snow to begin falling early Tuesday morning. By the afternoon, snowfall rates will increase to between 1 and…

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources forecasts hunters will likely bag fewer deer during this year’s gun deer season compared to 2022, when snow provided ideal conditions. DNR Deer Program Specialist Jeff Pritzl said in a virtual briefing Thursday that he would be surprised if hunters matched last year’s harvest. “I think it’s safe to…

Wisconsinites may be waking up to snow on Halloween. But despite the early appearance of winter weather, the state is expected to have a more mild season overall, according to the National Weather Service. Portions of central and southern Wisconsin are expected to see some snow Monday night into Tuesday morning, and it could linger…

When it comes to paddling in the fall, finding a place to dip your oars can be a simple as picking a spot where there’s enough water. That might sound trickier than usual with the drought Wisconsin has suffered this year, but lakes tend to retain their water well. And there are 15,000 in the…

In three years, Wisconsin is set to join dozens of other states with statewide networks of weather stations that aim to provide faster and better reports to farmers. Thanks to more than $3 million in grant funding, the University of Wisconsin-Madison now plans to establish 90 sites to monitor weather and soil conditions throughout the…

Snowbanks blocked Colleen Rooney’s view of the water when she and her husband first arrived at their new lakeside home in rural Vilas County last month. “I actually had to hire someone to come take a skid loader and get the snow away from the garage so we could unload the truck,” Rooney said. The…

Loons have been falling from the sky over Wisconsin this week, according to an avian rehabilitation organization. Marge Gibson, founder and director of Raptor Education Group, blamed what they call a “loon fallout” on cold, turbulent spring weather. She said migrating loons that fly at high altitudes get coated in ice which hampers their flight…

Scientists have long known rising temperatures favor growth of potentially harmful algal blooms, but a new study finds increasing evidence that they also form in cold and even ice-covered waters. An international team of 28 scientists published the findings Friday in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Limnology and Oceanography Letters. Researchers working with the Global Lake…

Colder temperatures have returned in Wisconsin after a near-record setting warm start to the year. According to Alex Bukvich, director of operations at Innovative Weather at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, January was on track to be the warmest on record in Milwaukee until temperatures dropped last week. Now, it’s likely to be the second warmest.…

With ice cover on the Great Lakes at a near-record low, the port of Duluth-Superior recently saw the latest departure of a cargo-carrying freighter in nearly 50 years. As of Thursday, ice covered only about 5 percent of the Great Lakes. This year is the fifth-lowest year for average ice cover on the lakes since…