![]() Kallas said it's too soon to tell exactly what the radar will look like, but it will likely start Wednesday night into Thursday with rain and that could turn into snow at the end of the week. More precipitation is anticipated at the end of the week. "It's just a lot of water and snow that's going to have to melt and go down to rivers and streams, so if this doesn't stop pretty soon then we're going to have some flooding concerns here as we head into April." Rain in the forecast We're getting close to doubling what we were at this time last year," Kallas said. Green Bay has gotten 39 inches, Wausau 38, and Rhinelander 41.7 since the start of February, according to the National Weather Service. The majority of that snow has fallen since Feb. The average snowfall at this time for the area is 46.8 inches, and last year at this time Green Bay had seen just 35.9 inches, Kallas said. So far this winter, Green Bay has gotten 68.2 inches of snow. It's been a particularly snow-heavy winter. Kallas said there were "outrageous" snowfall numbers in the northwestern part of the state, due to the lake effect on Lake Superior. Snowfall exceeded five inches along the southern edge of Wisconsin. The heaviest snow is going to run from northwest Wisconsin through east-central Wisconsin," Kallas said. Snowfall totals ranged from 1.0 inch at Sugar Camp to 13.0 inches at New London. The purpose of these experimental probabilistic snowfall products is to provide customers and partners a range of snowfall possibilities, in complement to existing NWS deterministic snowfall graphics, to better communicate forecast uncertainties during winter weather events. "The lesser snow amounts are farther north and east, in the northeast corner of Wisconsin. Waupaca County saw the highest snowfall total in the area over the last 36 hours, with 13.2 inches measured about 7 miles north of Iola, said Tasos Kallas, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Ashwaubenon. In the latest winter storm to hit Wisconsin, parts of northeastern and central Wisconsin received more than a foot of snow this weekend.
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