MONROE - Monroe is 4 inches away from a record.
Rusty Kapela, warning coordinator meteorologist with the National Weather Service (NWS) Office in Sullivan, Wis., verified yesterday that through Feb. 11, Monroe has received 65.3 inches of snow this season.
Gerald Ellefson, superintendent of the Monroe wasterwater treatment plant, which is the official recorder of weather for the NWS, said his records only go back 40 years. He said the 1978-1979 winter season was the snowiest on record, with a total of 70.15 inches of snow.
"But we still have a lot of February and a lot of March to go through yet," Ellefson said. And historically, he said, the late winter snow are heavy with moisture from the warm moist gulf air that it brings up.
Monroe winters averages about 38 to 42 inches of snowfall.
Kapela said the previous record of 52.1 inches through Feb.11 set in 1979 has been broken. He noted snowfall records only go back to 1948.
Ellefson estimates about 17 inches of snow remains on the ground, although he said a lot of it is in drifts in some areas.
Rusty Kapela, warning coordinator meteorologist with the National Weather Service (NWS) Office in Sullivan, Wis., verified yesterday that through Feb. 11, Monroe has received 65.3 inches of snow this season.
Gerald Ellefson, superintendent of the Monroe wasterwater treatment plant, which is the official recorder of weather for the NWS, said his records only go back 40 years. He said the 1978-1979 winter season was the snowiest on record, with a total of 70.15 inches of snow.
"But we still have a lot of February and a lot of March to go through yet," Ellefson said. And historically, he said, the late winter snow are heavy with moisture from the warm moist gulf air that it brings up.
Monroe winters averages about 38 to 42 inches of snowfall.
Kapela said the previous record of 52.1 inches through Feb.11 set in 1979 has been broken. He noted snowfall records only go back to 1948.
Ellefson estimates about 17 inches of snow remains on the ground, although he said a lot of it is in drifts in some areas.