The weekend’s warmer weather will be a distant memory as you pull out your snowblowers and shovels over the next few days.
The National Weather Service has placed Door County and five others in northeast Wisconsin on a winter storm watch beginning Wednesday at 6 p.m. and ending at 6 p.m. Thursday. Known as Winter Storm Delilah, heavy snow is predicted, with 10 to 13 inches on the horizon. With wind gusts reaching as high as 40 miles per hour, near-blizzard conditions could sometimes occur.
The winter fun is predicted to begin even earlier in Brown, Kewaunee, Manitowoc, and nine other counties as the National Weather Service issues a winter weather advisory from 6 p.m. Tuesday until 9 a.m. Wednesday. Two to five inches of snow could hit the area before it joins the rest of the region in the winter storm watch where 10-13 inches of snow is predicted.
It could be one of the most significant snowfalls the area has seen since Winter Storm Evelyn dumped close to 30 inches on Door County in April 2018. It could even threaten records set for February.