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A day after highs broke 50 for the first time this year, southern Wisconsin could see up to a quarter-inch of ice and northern Wisconsin a foot or more of snow as a big storm system moves through the central U.S. Monday and Tuesday, according to forecasters.
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The second of the two cross-country storms will bring rain, an icy mix and snow across the Central states before moving towards the Great Lakes and Northeast.
Heavy snow and gusty winds swept through swaths of the northern U.S. on Feb. 18, causing whiteout conditions as a clipper system headed toward the Northeast.
Chief Meteorologist Matt Holiner shows us some of the maps and images he came across while researching the coldest weather the Midwest has ever seen.
Photos: Remembering the Great Ice Storm of 1976
It may be wishful thinking proclaimed by this road sign in Fitchburg, because a blizzard probably would not have done as much damage as the ice storm that downed this power pole and the electric lines it carried.
Mount Horeb High School students help clean up broken limbs on North 2nd Street.
Icicles on a barbed-wire fence in the aftermath of the March 4, 1976, ice storm.
Wires short out on a utility pole at 6209 Bridge Road in Monona during the ice storm of March 1976.
Cars off the road during the Madison Ice storm of March 1976.
Fence along Highway 73 following the ice storm of March 1976.
The ice storm devastated the countryside between Cambridge and Stoughton in eastern Dane County.
Front page of the Wisconsin State Journal from March 5, 1976.
Page from the Wisconsin State Journal from March 6, 1976.
Front page of the Wisconsin State Journal from March 6, 1976.
Page from the Wisconsin State Journal from March 6, 1976.
It may be wishful thinking proclaimed by this road sign in Fitchburg, Wisconsin, because a blizzard probably would not have done as much damage as the March 1976 ice storm that downed this power pole and the electric lines it carried.
Wires short out on a utility pole at 6209 Bridge Road in Monona, Wisconsin, during the ice storm of March 1976.
Cars slide off the road during the Madison ice storm of March 1976.
A fence along Wisconsin Highway 73 shows the aftermath of the ice storm of March 1976.
The March 1976 ice storm devastated the countryside between Cambridge and Stoughton in eastern Dane County, Wisconsin.
