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Snow doesn't cause many problems in east central Wisconsin

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Sandy Hanson of Appleton, laughs as her black labrador mix puppy, Molly, bounds through the snow Friday, Jan. 31, 2003. Overnight snowfall brought 4-6 inches to the Fox Cities area, the first major snowfall of this winter. (AP Photo/The Post-Crescent)


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A significant snowfall hit east-central Wisconsin Friday, something not seen too often this winter, but it didn't create a lot of havoc.

"The roads have been plowed and they are in good winter driving condition and it was warm out today and kind of pleasant," said Waushara County Sheriff Dave Peterson. "We had a little dusting the other day and we had more trouble with that than this one."

About 7 inches fell in Waushara County's Coloma, about 6.5 in New London, Marinette, Waupaca and Green Bay, 5 in Oshkosh and 3.1 in Wausau, according to the National Weather Service.

Peterson said they haven't had many problems considering it's one of the only major snowfalls this season.

The snow had nearly finished by Friday afternoon, said Jim Skowronski, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.

"It was about four to seven inch snow across the area and that's not too terribly uncommon for this time of year," he said.

Delores Boyson of Fremont said she and many others were a little late getting started there as they waited for plows to come through before heading out from home.

"There's an awful lot of snow," she said, especially since there has been hardly any during the first half of the winter there.

Mostly cloudy skies were forecast for Saturday with a chance of light snow in northern Wisconsin and a chance of a mix of freezing rain in central Wisconsin. Highs were expected in the 30s and lows from the mid teens in northwestern Wisconsin to the 20s elsewhere.

Sunday was to bring cloudy skies with a chance of mixed precipitation in the northern part of the state and a chance for rain in central and southern Wisconsin. Highs were to be in the 30s to around 40 and lows were expected to be in the upper teens to around 30.

The extended forecast called for cloudy skies with a chance of snow on Monday. Meteorologists said highs would be from the 20s to mid 30s and lows were expected to be from 5 below in the far northwest part of the state to the mid 20s in the far southeast.


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