From local restrictions on gathering sizes to gym closures, staying fit during the COVID-19 pandemic might seem a near-impossible task. Despite that, many communities in Michigan and elsewhere in the Great Lakes region have adapted existing physical fitness programs and implemented new ones.

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Tests reveal elevated PFAS levels in Madison lakes

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Tests have revealed elevated levels of man-made chemicals known as PFAS in Madison-area lakes, state environmental officials said Thursday.

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources collected samples last year from lakes Mendota, Monona, Upper Mud, Waubesa and Kegonsa, as well as along sections of the Yahara River between the lakes.

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The Associated Press

National Recognition: Great Lakes Now wins “Best News and Public Affairs” program for public broadcasting

Congratulations to us for our Public Media Award!

During the National Educational Telecommunications Association conference today, Great Lakes Now received the “Best News and Public Affairs” content award in the annual competition open to public broadcasters.

Congratulations to @detroitpublictv for receiving the Division 1 #publicmediaaward for Content – News & Public Affairs for Great Lakes Now Series #PMA2020

— NETA (@NETA_Tweets) January 26, 2021

Produced at Detroit Public Television, the Great Lakes Now monthly program is carried by more than two dozen PBS affiliates in Great Lakes states and airs on hundreds of Canadian cable providers across Ontario and other provinces.

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Great Lakes Commission and historic Ford House team up for restoration of Lake St. Clair shoreline and wildlife habitats

GROSSE POINTE SHORES, Michigan — Ford House, the historic estate of Edsel and Eleanor Ford, is teaming up with the Great Lakes Commission (GLC) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for a project to restore disappearing wildlife habitats along the shoreline of Ford Cove on Lake St. Clair — part of Michigan’s Great Lakes waterway. Dubbed the Ford Cove Shoreline and Coastal Wetland Restoration Project, the goal is to transform Ford House’s lake shore back to its natural state.

 

The Ford Cove restoration will span roughly a mile of Lake St. Clair’s coastline and more than 17 acres of the surrounding coastal marsh, nearshore habitat and adjacent forested wetlands. The plan includes removing hard, non-natural coastal features like broken concrete and seawalls and reintroducing native plant species and softer shorelines. This will reduce the heavy waves that disrupt vital habitats that local fish, waterfowl, mussels, turtles, snakes and other wildlife need to raise their young, find cover and forage for food — all supporting the lake’s greater ecosystem.

 

The project kicks off this spring with an initial feasibility study to evaluate the plan put together by Ford House and GLC, along with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources Fisheries Division, and Macomb County’s Planning and Economic Development Department, Parks and Natural Resources Division. The project team selected Michigan-based community advancement firm OHM Advisors to execute the study, lasting about 18 months. OHM Advisors specializes in architecture, engineering, planning, urban design and landscape architecture, surveying and construction engineering.

 

“Ninety-nine percent of Lake St. Clair’s shoreline is not in its original condition, so Ford House will be recreating the natural world, and that’s an exciting process. After the study is complete, we will get to make Ford House’s shores and wetlands a more functional part of the natural community,” said Kevin Drotos, Ford House Invasive Species and Woodland Specialist.

 

Ford Cove presents a uniquely ideal location for a shoreline restoration of this scale, as a large swath of continuous shoreline privately owned by Ford House. Natural habitats along the shoreline in Macomb County have nearly disappeared because of industry and significant development of lakefront property. The 31 1/2 miles of shoreline in the county hold 10,000 boat slips and 50 marinas, leaving only 2,140 linear feet of natural shores.

 

Ford House places a high priority on environmental sustainability, an extension of the museum’s mission to maintain and restore the Fords’ historic home and grounds as a National Historic Landmark. Two Ford House staff — Ford House Director of Landscapes Karl Koto and Drotos — have teamed up with the GLC to lead the project.

 

“Roughly 200 species of birds use Ford Cove and the land around it. When we restore the shoreline, the birds can have access to the native plants we add, and the insects that live on them. The fish and other aquatic species will be able to thrive,” Drotos said. “All these things benefit the ecosystem. Ford House is taking an interest in the health of the environment, hand-in-hand with caring for the estate’s history and landscapes.”

 

The current step of the project, the feasibility study, will include detailed baseline chemical, geotechnical, and ecological evaluations, preliminary hydrologic and hydraulic modeling, and produce conceptual plans with estimated costs and restoration recommendations. These measures will determine if the plan will be able to effectively reach its restoration goals.

“The Ford Cove project has the potential to benefit numerous important species native to the Great Lakes, as well as some federally protected species like freshwater mussels,” said Erika Jensen, interim executive director of the GLC. “We’re pleased to be working with Ford House and continuing our partnership with NOAA to restore this and other priority sites across the Great Lakes basin.”

The cost of the feasibility study is $230,634, including a $3,000 in-kind match from Ford House.

 

Funding for this project comes from the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative through a regional partnership between NOAA and the GLC. A project management team provides input and guidance on the project and includes members from the GLC, Ford House, NOAA, Macomb County, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources Fisheries Division, and the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy.


The Great Lakes Commission, led by chair Sharon M. Jackson, Deputy General Counsel for Governor Eric J. Holcomb of Indiana, is a binational government agency established in 1955 to protect the Great Lakes and the economies and ecosystems they support. Its membership includes leaders from the eight U.S. states and two Canadian provinces in the Great Lakes basin. The GLC recommends policies and practices to balance the use, development, and conservation of the water resources of the Great Lakes and brings the region together to work on issues that no single community, state, province, or nation can tackle alone. Learn more at www.glc.org.

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Great Lakes Commission and historic Ford House team up for restoration of Lake St. Clair shoreline and wildlife habitats

GROSSE POINTE SHORES, Michigan — Ford House, the historic estate of Edsel and Eleanor Ford, is teaming up with the Great Lakes Commission (GLC) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for a project to restore disappearing wildlife habitats along the shoreline of Ford Cove on Lake St. Clair — part of Michigan’s Great Lakes waterway. Dubbed the Ford Cove Shoreline and Coastal Wetland Restoration Project, the goal is to transform Ford House’s lake shore back to its natural state.

 

The Ford Cove restoration will span roughly a mile of Lake St. Clair’s coastline and more than 17 acres of the surrounding coastal marsh, nearshore habitat and adjacent forested wetlands. The plan includes removing hard, non-natural coastal features like broken concrete and seawalls and reintroducing native plant species and softer shorelines. This will reduce the heavy waves that disrupt vital habitats that local fish, waterfowl, mussels, turtles, snakes and other wildlife need to raise their young, find cover and forage for food — all supporting the lake’s greater ecosystem.

 

The project kicks off this spring with an initial feasibility study to evaluate the plan put together by Ford House and GLC, along with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources Fisheries Division, and Macomb County’s Planning and Economic Development Department, Parks and Natural Resources Division. The project team selected Michigan-based community advancement firm OHM Advisors to execute the study, lasting about 18 months. OHM Advisors specializes in architecture, engineering, planning, urban design and landscape architecture, surveying and construction engineering.

 

“Ninety-nine percent of Lake St. Clair’s shoreline is not in its original condition, so Ford House will be recreating the natural world, and that’s an exciting process. After the study is complete, we will get to make Ford House’s shores and wetlands a more functional part of the natural community,” said Kevin Drotos, Ford House Invasive Species and Woodland Specialist.

 

Ford Cove presents a uniquely ideal location for a shoreline restoration of this scale, as a large swath of continuous shoreline privately owned by Ford House. Natural habitats along the shoreline in Macomb County have nearly disappeared because of industry and significant development of lakefront property. The 31 1/2 miles of shoreline in the county hold 10,000 boat slips and 50 marinas, leaving only 2,140 linear feet of natural shores.

 

Ford House places a high priority on environmental sustainability, an extension of the museum’s mission to maintain and restore the Fords’ historic home and grounds as a National Historic Landmark. Two Ford House staff — Ford House Director of Landscapes Karl Koto and Drotos — have teamed up with the GLC to lead the project.

 

“Roughly 200 species of birds use Ford Cove and the land around it. When we restore the shoreline, the birds can have access to the native plants we add, and the insects that live on them. The fish and other aquatic species will be able to thrive,” Drotos said. “All these things benefit the ecosystem. Ford House is taking an interest in the health of the environment, hand-in-hand with caring for the estate’s history and landscapes.”

 

The current step of the project, the feasibility study, will include detailed baseline chemical, geotechnical, and ecological evaluations, preliminary hydrologic and hydraulic modeling, and produce conceptual plans with estimated costs and restoration recommendations. These measures will determine if the plan will be able to effectively reach its restoration goals.

“The Ford Cove project has the potential to benefit numerous important species native to the Great Lakes, as well as some federally protected species like freshwater mussels,” said Erika Jensen, interim executive director of the GLC. “We’re pleased to be working with Ford House and continuing our partnership with NOAA to restore this and other priority sites across the Great Lakes basin.”

The cost of the feasibility study is $230,634, including a $3,000 in-kind match from Ford House.

 

Funding for this project comes from the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative through a regional partnership between NOAA and the GLC. A project management team provides input and guidance on the project and includes members from the GLC, Ford House, NOAA, Macomb County, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources Fisheries Division, and the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy.


The Great Lakes Commission, led by chair Sharon M. Jackson, Deputy General Counsel for Governor Eric J. Holcomb of Indiana, is a binational government agency established in 1955 to protect the Great Lakes and the economies and ecosystems they support. Its membership includes leaders from the eight U.S. states and two Canadian provinces in the Great Lakes basin. The GLC recommends policies and practices to balance the use, development, and conservation of the water resources of the Great Lakes and brings the region together to work on issues that no single community, state, province, or nation can tackle alone. Learn more at www.glc.org.

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Beth Wanamaker

Stalled Ships: Shipping industry looks to infrastructure investments to boost demand

The Great Lakes’ iconic freighters remained common sights on the waters – that much didn’t change during pandemic. But, like many industries, shipping was hit hard by COVID-19. That feels especially salient when shipping is such an integral piece of the Great Lakes economy.

As of September 2020, iron ore cargoes were “down 27% from last year at this time,” James Weakley, president of the Lake Carriers’ Association and representative of Ohio on the Great Lakes Commission, said in an interview with Great Lakes Now.

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Great Lakes Now

https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2021/01/shipping-industry-infrastructure-investments/

Natasha Blakely

COVID-19 Concerns: Economic recovery plagues the minds of many in the Great Lakes region

With COVID-19 vaccines rolling out, many people are shifting their worries to the economy and how to recover from the state that it has been left in – with numerous local and regional industries gutted after this past summer.

“Until we start working together and work together to make sure that we keep the pandemic down while the vaccine is coming in, we’re not going to be able to rebuild this economy for quite some time,” John Dickert of the Alliance for Regional Development in a Great Lakes Now interview.

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Great Lakes Now

Great Lakes Now

https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2021/01/covid-19-concerns-economic-recovery-plagues/

Natasha Blakely

Wisconsin DNR board refuses to set early wolf hunt

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Department of Natural Resources policy board narrowly refused Republican legislators’ request Friday to implement a wolf hunt immediately, citing concerns that the department can’t move that fast and Wisconsin’s Native American tribes haven’t been consulted as per treaty rights.

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Great Lakes Now

Great Lakes Now

https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2021/01/ap-wisconsin-dnr-board-refuses-early-wolf-hunt/

The Associated Press

Lack of Enforcement: Less compliance with environmental laws means more pollution in the lakes

The long-term impact of the Trump administration on the Great Lakes environment remains a big question – particularly when President Donald Trump was still rolling back environmental protections in the last few months of his term.

Over the length of his term, Trump rolled back a number of rules and regulations, and enforcement of the ones that remained dropped.

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Great Lakes Now

https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2021/01/lack-enforcement-compliance-environmental-laws-more-pollution/

Natasha Blakely

A new tugboat, 32.2-metre-long Amy Lynn D tug, is plying Bay of Quinte and Lake Ontario waters after making an epic journey across the Atlantic Ocean to her new home at Picton Terminals in Prince Edward County. Read the full story by Whig Standard.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210126-shipping-tug

Patrick Canniff

Beginning this month, through state of Michigan funding, a project for removing mine trailing sands located in stamp sand will  truck the dredged sands 4 miles north of the Grand Traverse harbor and placed in a temporary disposal area. This area is located on an existing stamp sand deposit, away from the immediate reach of Lake Superior. Read the full story by The Mining Journal.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210126-mining-dredge-michigan

Patrick Canniff

President Joe Biden is set to sign an Executive Order, titled “Strengthening ‘Buy American’ Provisions, Ensuring Future of America is Made in America by All of America’s Workers”, which includes strong support of the Jones Act and references the recently passed National Defense Authorization Act, which the American Maritime Partnership recently described as the most consequential maritime legislation enacted in years. Read the full story by gCaptain.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210126-shipping-maritime

Patrick Canniff

Microplastic particles, typically studied as aquatic pollutants, are also common in coastal dunes on Great Lakes’ shorelines, according to a new study which has found that microplastic pollution is frequently transported from shore to coastal land. Read the full story by The Mining Journal.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210126-microplastic-pollution

Patrick Canniff

The Great Lakes are threatened by toxic, greenhouse-gas-emitting algae that thrive on phosphorus pollution. A new study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, helps explain why the blooms persist: Hordes of invasive quagga mussels have effectively reengineered the largest freshwater ecosystem on Earth. Read the full story by Grist.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210126-invasive-pollution-algae

Patrick Canniff

Since its inception, the GLRI has invested more than $2.7 billion in more than 5,400 projects across all eight Great Lakes states. GLRI projects address five main areas and is helping to prevent non-native species from invading, support clean up, restore habitat and more. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210126-glri-funding-restoration

Patrick Canniff

Wisconsin ‘s Climate Change Report was published last month by the governor’s Task Force on Climate Change and included for the first time in a government report, an Indigenous land acknowledgement that notes this land was stolen from Indigenous people. The task force sought input from the 12 Native tribes in the state for the Climate Change Report. Read the full story by Green Bay Press-Gazette.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210126-climate-change-wisconsin-tribes

Patrick Canniff

As the spring thaw begins in Wisconsin, the outdoors and our watery places beckon. For both kids and adults there is a strong urge to get outside and play. This urge also inspires narratives from writers on their own experiences exploring our world: on foot, in canoes, on bicycles, in their backyards, from their tents […]

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Anne Moser

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At the Alliance for the Great Lakes November 2020 Board of Directors meeting, the board voted unanimously to honor Paul Culhane as a Director Emeritus in recognition of his more than 30 years of combined board service to the Alliance and its predecessor organization, the Lake Michigan Federation. Paul’s service to the organization over the past four decades is more than any living current or former board member. He is just the fourth emeritus board member ever designated and the first since the organization became the Alliance for the Great Lakes.

“Paul’s fervent support for the protection of the Great Lakes and his depth of knowledge about the lakes, public policy, and organizatiPaul Culhaneonal management have helped steer the organization through difficult times and into the thriving organization it is today,” said Alliance for the Great Lakes Board Chair Sue Conatser. “We are all deeply grateful for Paul’s service and are honored to have him as a Director Emeritus.” 

In the early 1970s, Culhane was involved in the beginning years of the Lake Michigan Federation. As a doctoral student, he was hired through a start-up grant from the Ford Foundation and spent the 1973-74 academic year following Federation founder Lee Botts and staff to meetings, doing interviews and research to support the evaluation. A key finding of his report, The Lake Michigan Federation: Evaluation of an Environmental Interest Group (Northwestern, Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research, 1974, 157 pp.) was that the Lake Michigan Federation was pivotal in organizing citizens groups to provide a counterbalance to industry opposition to the 1972 Clean Water Act.

Culhane joined the Lake Michigan Federation board in 1981 and served continuously until 2001. In the 1990s, he co-chaired two executive director search committees and served as LMF Secretary from 1994-98, Treasurer from 1998-2001, and Chair of the Policy Committee. He returned to the board after the organization became the Alliance for the Great Lakes in 2005 and served in many capacities, including as Chair of the Nominations Committee from 2009-11, through November 2018.

In addition to all of this, Culhane is a longtime volunteer advocate for the Sierra Club, helped lead a Des Plaines River watershed organization for many years, was an election judge, is an avid paddler, and remains an Alliance donor.

Congratulations to Paul! 

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Michelle Farley

Your Federal Tax Dollars: How they are funding the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative

Images related to Great Lakes Restoration Initiative projects are powerful and well-known: jumping Asian carp, overflowing sewage and pollution flowing into waterways and lakes, invasive mussels clogging water infrastructure and blanketing shipwrecks.

But with its hundreds of millions of federal dollars, the initiative is helping to prevent non-native species from invading, support clean up, restore habitat and more.

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Great Lakes Now

https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2021/01/federal-tax-dollars-funding-great-lakes-restoration-initiative/

Natasha Blakely

Crisis Response: President Biden has already kickstarted the country’s new approach to climate change

Water levels are swinging from one extreme to another. The Great Lakes are looking at an iceless, warm winter. Severe storms are hitting more frequently.

Climate change has been a contentious issue for the Great Lakes region – and the rest of the nation – as people debate the severity, impacts and need for action.

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Great Lakes Now

https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2021/01/crisis-response-president-biden-approach-climate-change/

Natasha Blakely

The Great Lakes Are Bipartisan: As Biden takes office, remember the region’s votes were split

Join Great Lakes Now on Jan. 26 at 7:15 p.m. EST for our “The Great Lakes Agenda” episode premiere Watch Party here. Great Lakes Now Program Director Sandra Svoboda will be hosting alongside guests environmental reporter Kelly House of Bridge Michigan and senior editor and chief correspondent Keith Schneider of Circle of Blue.

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https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2021/01/great-lakes-bipartisan-biden-regions-votes-split/

Sandra Svoboda

Nearly four years since the presence of perfluorooctanoic acid and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid were discovered at Michigan’s Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center, the U.S. military, the state, and local health officials are moving forward to rectify the situation. Read the full story by The Alpena News.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210125-pfas-cleanup

Samantha Tank

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is working to clean up aluminum cans and can fragments that were “inadvertently deposited” as part of an effort to replace eroded sand on Minnesota Point, a popular Lake Superior beach. Read the full story by WDIO-TV – Duluth, MN.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210125-minnesota-point

Samantha Tank

The Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation is contesting a decision by the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy, which dismissed the group’s challenge to a permit to let Nestle Waters extract more groundwater for bottling under the Ice Mountain brand. Read the full story by MLive.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210125-nestle-case

Samantha Tank

Local mid-Michigan officials said state and federal agencies have conducted an extensive investigation of a toxic green ooze site in Madison Heights, Michigan, installed a treatment system, and collected more than 350,000 gallons of contaminated groundwater to be treated. Read the full story by WDIV-TV – Detroit, MI.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210125-toxic-ooze

Samantha Tank

The state of Michigan is seeking input from the public on an updated public lands strategy that will affect roughly 4.6 million acres of state-owned forests, parks, trails, game and wildlife areas and other public lands. Read the full story by The Associated Press.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210125-public-lands

Samantha Tank

A shipwreck hunter is in talks with the Racine Heritage Museum to donate artifacts related to shipwrecks in the Wisconsin side of Lake Michigan, totaling up to a value of over $1.5 million. Read the full story by The Journal Times.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210125-shipwreck-artifacts

Samantha Tank

New Channel: Great Lakes Now anchors Saturday evenings on Michigan Learning Channel

Even the youngest Great Lakes fans can learn more about the world’s largest surface freshwater system – and they can do it while watching educational television.

The Michigan Learning Channel launched statewide earlier this month as a new distance-learning initiative. All six Michigan PBS stations are involved in the channel, with Detroit Public Television leading the effort.

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https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2021/01/great-lakes-now-saturday-evenings-michigan-learning-channel/

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Increased ozone emissions in several southern Michigan counties could lead to new motor vehicle maintenance inspections if researchers can’t blame them on western wildfires.

The post Michigan could avoid new air regulations if pollution increase is from California wildfires first appeared on Great Lakes Echo.

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...LIGHT SNOW EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH LATE THIS MORNING... .A low pressure system will continue to bring light snow to central Wisconsin through mid-morning, and east-central Wisconsin through late this morning. South to southeast winds may also lead to some lake enhancement for the shoreline counties. ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST

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...LIGHT SNOW EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH LATE THIS MORNING... .A low pressure system will continue to bring light snow to central Wisconsin through mid-morning and east-central Wisconsin through late this morning. South to southeast winds may also lead to some lake enhancement for the shoreline counties. ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST

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...LIGHT SNOW CREATING SLIPPERY AND SNOW-COVERED ROADS THIS MORNING... Steady light to moderate snow has created reductions in visibility and slippery and snow-covered roads across the area this morning. The snow has started to taper off in far north-central Wisconsin and will begin to taper off in central Wisconsin by 830 this

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...LIGHT TO MODERATE SNOW EXPECTED THIS MORNING... .A low pressure system will continue to bring light to moderate snow to central and east-central Wisconsin through late this morning. South to southeast winds may also lead to some lake enhancement for the shoreline counties. ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST

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...LIGHT SNOW CREATING SLIPPERY AND SNOW-COVERED ROADS THROUGH EARLY THIS MORNING... Steady light to moderate snow to continue across the region through mid-morning Sunday. Reductions in visibility and slippery and snow-covered roads have been reported across the region as a result of the accumulating snow. The snow will end from west to

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...LIGHT SNOW CREATING SLIPPERY AND SNOW-COVERED ROADS OVERNIGHT... Steady light to moderate snow to continue across the region late tonight through early Sunday morning. Reductions in visibility and slippery and snow-covered roads have been reported in central and north-central Wisconsin as a result of the accumulating snow. Motorists should be prepared for slippery travel, especially on

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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

https://alerts.weather.gov/cap/wwacapget.php?x=WI12618943F81C.SpecialWeatherStatement.126189446A90WI.GRBSPSGRB.c7af4845f2e9eb88e57e1747a63d15f5

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...LIGHT SNOW WILL MOVE INTO THE FOX VALLEY BETWEEN 11PM AND MIDNIGHT... Light snow will arrive in the Fox Valley by midnight, and then continue overnight. The snow will accumulate at a rate of a quarter to half inch an hour, and will make roads and sidewalks slippery. Travel with care tonight.

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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

https://alerts.weather.gov/cap/wwacapget.php?x=WI12618943A8D0.SpecialWeatherStatement.12618943FB3CWI.GRBSPSGRB.670272ffdeab82d92d5ab990673d0435

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...LIGHT TO MODERATE SNOW EXPECTED LATER TONIGHT INTO SUNDAY... .A low pressure system will bring light to moderate snow to central and east- central Wisconsin later tonight through midday Sunday. South to southeast winds may also lead to some lake enhancement for the shoreline counties. Most locations will receive 2 to 5 inches of snow by the time the snow tapers off from west to east by Sunday afternoon.

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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

https://alerts.weather.gov/cap/wwacapget.php?x=WI126189375B98.WinterWeatherAdvisory.12618945CA20WI.GRBWSWGRB.f94633d5e3ef177cef51db9eda985351

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...LIGHT TO MODERATE SNOW EXPECTED LATE THIS EVENING INTO SUNDAY... .A quick-moving low pressure system and upper-level disturbance will approach and pass through the area late this evening through Sunday, leading to widespread light to moderate snow across central and east-central Wisconsin. South to southeast winds may

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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

https://alerts.weather.gov/cap/wwacapget.php?x=WI1261893647D0.WinterWeatherAdvisory.12618945CA20WI.GRBWSWGRB.f94633d5e3ef177cef51db9eda985351

w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov

...LIGHT TO MODERATE SNOW EXPECTED LATE THIS EVENING INTO SUNDAY... .A quick-moving low pressure system and upper-level disturbance will approach and pass through the area late this evening through Sunday, leading to widespread light to moderate snow across central and east-central Wisconsin. South to southeast winds may

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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

https://alerts.weather.gov/cap/wwacapget.php?x=WI126189355CA8.WinterWeatherAdvisory.12618945CA20WI.GRBWSWGRB.f94633d5e3ef177cef51db9eda985351

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