Power Outage in Downsville, WI

A powerful late spring system produced a band of very heavy snow across the region on the evening of March 31, and ending during the early morning of April 01. Snowfall rates of 1 to 2 inches per hour combined with northwest winds of 25 to near 35 mph hour. This was a heavy, wet snow, and as a result there were power outages with the highest snowfall amounts across eastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin. In some areas, recovery lasted multiple days before full power was restored.||A few noteable snowfall amounts are:|15.0 inches near Ladysmith in Rusk County.|13.0 inches near New Richmond in St. Croix County.|11.5 inches near Amery in Polk County.|11.0 inches near Chetek in Barron County.|10.0 inche near Boyceville in Dunn County.|8.0 inches near Elssworth in Pierce County.

April 01, 2023

A powerful late spring system produced a band of very heavy snow across the region on the evening of March 31, and ending during the early morning of April 01 (see corresponding entry for April). Snowfall rates of 1 to 2 inches per hour combined with northwest winds of 25 to near 35 mph hour. This was a heavy, wet snow, and as a result there were power outages with the highest snowfall amounts across eastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin. In some areas, recovery lasted multiple days before full power was restored.||A few notable snowfall amounts are:|15.0 inches near Ladysmith in Rusk County.|13.0 inches near New Richmond in St. Croix County.|11.5 inches near Amery in Polk County.|11.0 inches near Chetek in Barron County.|10.0 inches near Boyceville in Dunn County.|8.0 inches near Ellsworth in Pierce County.

March 31, 2023

Thunderstorm Wind. There were over a dozen pine trees that were snapped off above the base, northwest of Weston. A few power poles were also broken. There were also unconfirmed reports of more trees and power lines down across southern Dunn County, but additional information was not available.

May 19, 2022

A storm system began to strengthen late Monday night across the central plains in advance of a powerful southern jet stream that intensified over the center part of the country on Tuesday. The center of this storm moved from northern Missouri northeast across the Midweek and eastern Great Lakes region by late Tuesday night.||A large area of light to moderate precipitation developed across southern and central Minnesota early Tuesday morning and moved northeast while heavier precipitation started to develop across south central, and into east central Minnesota, and adjacent west-central Wisconsin Tuesday morning. This secondary area of higher reflectivity was in response to the deepening southern jet and associated upper level forcing. This led to moderate to occasional heavy snowfall across parts of west central Wisconsin. A band of 4 to 10 inches of snow fell from the southeastern Twin Cities metro area, northeast across west central Wisconsin from Red Wing, to Rice Lake and Ladysmith.||Some of the higher snowfall totals include:||9.5 inches near Baldwin.|8.0 inches near Boyceville. |7.7 inches south of River Falls. |7.5 inches near Wheeler. |7.5 inches in Roberts.|7.1 inches in River Falls.|7.0 inches in Chetek.

February 22, 2022

Thunderstorm Wind. Some power outages noted east and north of Menomonie, along with isolated areas of trees blown down.

December 15, 2021