Wisconsin cold weather advisory; dangerous wind chills likely
MILWAUKEE - The National Service has issued a Cold Weather Advisory through 12 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 18 for wind chill values that can dip as low as -20°F to -29°F below zero.
Feel-like temperatures in this cold can cause frostbite in as little as 10 to 20 minutes.
This frigid arctic air mass is impacting areas as far south as Texas with the coldest air in the upper Midwest.
Surface air temperatures on Tuesday morning will be below zero with wind chills that can range as cold as -29°F. Isolated areas can briefly dip into the 30 below zero range. Currently, there is no extension of the cold weather advisory into Wednesday, but it is possible that one could be with more double digit sub-zero wind chills forecasted.
Single digit high temperatures will start off the third week in February, which will be 20°F to 30° below average for this time of year. Low temperatures will reach the negative single digits on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings.
Slightly warmer, but still below average, temperatures will return by the end of the week in the 20s.
As winds shift out of the southwest later this week, temperatures will warm back into the 30s by the weekend and even possible 40s next week!
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