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SE Wisconsin Gets First Major Snowstorm
Snowfall Began Sunday
UPDATED: 5:03 pm CST December 1,
2008
MILWAUKEE -- Southeastern Wisconsin's first major snowstorm has resulted in one weather-related death Monday.The Milwaukee County medical examiner's office said that a 64-year-old man collapsed and died while snow-blowing on Monday. The office says an official cause of death has not yet been determined, but paramedics suspect the man had a heart attack.Emergency workers tried to revive the man when they responded to the city's northwest side about 12:30 p.m., but an investigator from the medical examiner's office soon declared the man dead at the scene.A band of six to 10 inches of snow fell in southeastern Wisconsin late Sunday and into Monday morning.The National Weather Service officials said that a slow-moving, low pressure area over the central Great Lakes brought the snow starting Sunday. The heaviest spanned from around Sheboygan south to West Bend and Port Washington and west to Oconomowoc, Whitewater and La Grange.We Energies spokesman Barry McNulty says about 1,700 people were without power Friday morning in parts of the Milwaukee, Washington, Ozaukee and Racine counties. That's down from the peak of 19,000 between midnight and 3 a.m. Monday.Some Madison area schools opened two hours late, with about two inches forecast in that area.The National Weather Service office near Sullivan measured 9.4 inches on Monday morning.Random Lake in southern Sheboygan county measured 10 inches as of midnight.The accumulation was less in far southeast Wisconsin because there had been periods of rain mixed with snow.Winds of 15 to 30 mph are producing blowing and drifting snow in outlying areas.WISC-TV meteorologist Karin Swanson said that Monday will be mostly cloudy, windy and cold with light snow and flurries ending with little additional accumulation. She said that there will be some breaks in the clouds developing later in the afternoon. The daytime high will reach 29 degrees. Winds will be from the northwest 15-25 mph, but diminishing in the afternoon.Swanson said that Monday night will be mostly clear and colder. The overnight low will dip to 14 degrees.Click on the following links to receive e-mail or cell phone alerts for severe weather or school closing information.For the latest weather information, visit Channel 3000's Weather section.Stay tuned to WISC-TV and Channel 3000 for continuing coverage.
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