<p>Got snow in Houston today. Is it snowing at Marquette yet?</p>
<p>I’ve been watching the weather channel. D likes snow…good thing, since she’s waiting to hear from the nursing programs at both Marquette and SUNY Buffalo!</p>
<p>Yea, my son loves snow. He’s on retreat right now with clothes for 50 degrees, not 30 with snow! He’ll get an early preview of life at Marquette!</p>
<p>It snowed… and it was the first miserably cold day; low-mid 20’s</p>
<p>My S, from Los Angeles, was thrilled to have the first snow! Fortunately for him, MU has a one month winter break so he’ll get a respite from the cold before he heads back in January.</p>
<p>Just an update, he is thriving at MU, we couldn’t be happier with his choice.</p>
<p>When did y’all get the first snow? </p>
<p>Cpeltz, so glad your son is doing so well.</p>
<p>I think Thursday was the first snow, but it’s been an abnormally warm fall…</p>
<p>They will be all sick of the snow by mid-January and will be hoping for spring which does not arrive until early April. By the time they finish up in May they will be wearing short sleeves, shorts and sandals. If they are not used to midwest winters it can seem long. Most students just learn to deal with it and go to basketball games.</p>
<p>[Milwaukee</a> Weather Forecast and Conditions Wisconsin](<a href=“http://www.weather.com/weather/local/USWI0455?lswe=milwaukee,%20WI&from=searchbox_localwx]Milwaukee”>http://www.weather.com/weather/local/USWI0455?lswe=milwaukee,%20WI&from=searchbox_localwx)</p>
<p>Scroll down for the forecast!
They may get socked with 9-12 inches before it’s over.
Here in Chicago, we are not going to get the accumulations, but I am worried about possible ice and very strong winds.</p>
<p>MU and my neighbor hood got only a few inches of slushy snow while suburbs to the north and west got up to 12 inches.
Sloppy and wet walking around campus today.</p>
<p>Been getting the phone calls from the family about Wisconsin cancelling classes. Having to explain that’s not the college son is looking at. Was wondering if the “city effect” of buildings would lessen the impact of the snow. Definitely wouldn’t want to drive in that stuff, though. Thank goodness for Milwaukee’s public transportation and Marquette’s policy of living on campus first two years.</p>
<p>It IS bonechillingly cold today – highs in the single digits.</p>
<p>MU might have escaped the 12-18" of snow that hit our area, but I’m afraid they can’t avoid the cold blast for a couple days. This will be the real first taste of winter!</p>
<p>Montegut,</p>
<p>Buildings don’t affect snowfall, temperature does. Being within a few miles of the lake the temperature can be 8 or 10 degrees warmer than places 10 or 20 miles inland in the winter. The reverse can be true in spring, summer and fall. Cooler by the lake is the often stated weatherman phrase. Yesterday Milwaukee had periods of rain and sleet mixed in with periods of snow keeping snow totals down. Places inland got up to over a foot of snow in places. Generally, the temperature at Marquette should be close to what the official report is at the airport due to similar distance from the lake. </p>
<p>On the other hand, when the wind is from the N & NE, areas close to the lake including Marquette can get a lot of lake effect snow, even a foot or more, due to the moisture from the lake, while inland there is none. That’s the light fluffy stuff.</p>
<p>The weather isn’t boring here.</p>
<p>Oh, I know buildings don’t affect snowfall! I just meant that they might act as a shield against the wind or that they might affect accumulation on the ground. </p>
<p>Sorry for the ignorance. I’m from the South. </p>
<p>My mother just called from Houston and said they wheeled her out to enjoy the snow when it was falling. </p>
<p>She was surprised to find that her clothing was wet! She had no idea that snow was wet!</p>
<p>Oh, Montegut – so sweet! Hugs to your mom and hats off to new experiences!</p>
<p>During my four years at MU back in the early 70s we actually had more classes canceled for ice than snow. That said, when we DID have snow days some of them were whoppers. It snowed 17" on April 15th my freshman year and my junior year we had the biggest snowstorm I have ever seen.</p>
<p>I had been at the library the night before (Sunday) with my girlfriend; we went to grab a bite to eat at Big Boy then I dropped her back at her dorm (ODonnell) at about 11:30. I was living in an apt off campus at 24th St and Wells. There was no new snow on the ground when I went to bed and the roads were clear and dry. </p>
<p>My phone rang at about 8:20, it was the GF. She knew I always got up around 8:30 for my 10:00 AM class and when I answered she said “look out your window.” I couldn’t see out my window…my apt building had a lobby with couches and chairs and big windows so I strolled down there to find lots of other people sitting there in amazement as the drifts were over the top of cars on the streets. You could not tell that they were cars, just giant mounds of snow!</p>
<p>They literally shut things down at about 8 AM…people who managed to make it downtown to work were forced to stay in hotels, people were sleeping on mattresses in the department stores, it was wild. It had snowed over 18 inches between 1 AM and 7 AM and was still snowing and blowing all day. Everything was shut down and we were told not to try to drive or venture out unless in an emergency.</p>
<p>By Tuesday afternoon it had stopped snowing and I ventured out (with a few others I knew in the apt bldg) and we walked on top of the hardened snow down to campus where my GF was and she several of her friends came back to my apt (we walked because roads were still not passable)…I had a kitchen and food, a TV, stereo etc which was better than being holed up in a dorm room…and they stayed there until Thursday when the roads were finally able to be driven on. Driving anywhere was like driving through 10-12 foot plus canyons of snow…classes were canceled Monday through Thursday due to the snow.</p>
<p>For those who live in warmer climes like I do now, It wasn’t always like that though…my senior year we left for Christmas with no snow on the ground and returned to find none…it didn’t snow much if any all through January which made us all very leery…it was very strange to be on campus in January and early February with NO SNOW…and we were all afraid that Mother Nature would find a way to make up for it…
That winter I did see a lightning storm during a snow storm which was also a first and something I have never seen since!</p>
<p>Fortunately, on the whole it was a very mild winter.</p>
<p>That’s a great story, eadad!</p>
<p>Does Milwaukee get more snow due to lake effect than, say, Madison? I always thought of Milwaukee as in the same belt as Chicago, winterwise. In other words, occasional whoppers but not consistent, lasting snowfall all winter.</p>
<p>beastman – Have you lived in Chicago? We definitely have lasting snow all winter!!</p>
<p>eadad – Was that January 1979?
I remember 18 inches of snow falling in Chicago as well.</p>