Overview
- The National Weather Service warns of dangerous cold from midnight Friday to 1 p.m., followed by an Extreme Cold Watch into Saturday afternoon for southeast Wisconsin.
- Forecasts call for wind chills of roughly −30°F to −40°F and morning lows near −15°F, with officials cautioning that frostbite can occur in about 10 minutes and urging full skin coverage and layered clothing.
- A Winter Weather Advisory is in effect through 11 p.m. for additional localized snowfall, with areas near the state line potentially seeing about 2 inches.
- Local model guidance signals even colder pockets in southern Wisconsin, including a possible −18°F low in Madison and wind chills between −40°F and −50°F early Friday.
- The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection awarded $1 million to 49 producer-led watershed groups in the program’s 11th funding round, including recipients in Sauk, Juneau and Rock counties.