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RACINE — Racine can expect a taste of winter this weekend as the first snowfall and freezing temperatures of the season move into the area.
Michaela Heeren, a National Weather Service meteorologist at the Milwaukee/Sullivan station, said a trail of potential snowfall will travel from southern Minnesota through southern Wisconsin and possibly stretch into parts of northern Illinois.
Southeast Wisconsin will start to see snowflakes Saturday evening, which will last into Sunday morning. The initial stages will be a mix of rain and snow.
Then, as temperatures fall overnight, the mix will transition into snowfall.
Snowfall totals are expected to range between a trace and a couple hundredths of an inch, Heeren said.
“We’re not really looking at anything sticking on roads or anything impactful necessarily,” Heeren said. “It’s mainly going to be grassy and elevated surfaces because we have had such warm conditions up until this point.”
Heeren said she doesn’t expect roads to be icy because ground surface temperatures will still be in the mid-30s.
While the snowfall won’t be substantial, Heeren does recommend taking precautions.
“If you have some travel plans during the overnight hours on Saturday, you might see some visibility decreases,” she said. “Definitely take extra caution when you’re going over bridges … because those do freeze before the roads.”
Although this is the first wintery weather the area has seen this season, Heeren said things will warm up again next week with highs in the 40s and maybe low 50s.
This is definitely a very typical Wisconsin late fall, early winter snowfall, she said.
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