GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – Wind chill advisories continue through at least mid-morning Saturday in all of Wisconsin except the Eau Claire region.
There, the advisories end at noon Friday and resume again at 11 p.m.
The National Weather Service says a fresh blast of Arctic air will blow northwest winds of up to 30 miles an hour through the Badger State at least until late Saturday morning.
That’s when the week-long cold spell will finally begin to break. Until then, southeast Wisconsin can expect wind chills of 15 to 25-below — and 20 to 40-below in the northwest and north central areas.
Points in between will be in the middle of that range. Forecasters say it will be colder Friday night than Thursday night, with actual low temperatures of 20-below projected in the north by early Saturday morning.
Spinouts continued Friday morning on streets and highways where it’s too cold for road salt to work. The Highway 41-45 freeway northwest of Milwaukee was shut down for an hour during Friday morning’s rush hour.
Also, the state DOT said the eastbound lanes of Highway 10 were shut down late Friday morning in Waupaca County due to a serious crash.
A Chicago man was killed when an SUV hit a pick-up truck on a snow-covered road near Stoughton, south of Madison.
(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)
