at 11:11 AM by Mallory Schnell

Over 50 Inches of Snow Hits Wisconsin Community

If you’re a snow lover down here in Bowling Green, I may suggest a change of residence – Gile, Wisconsin. Gile, which is considered more like a neighborhood than a town in the city of Montreal, picked up 50.1 inches of snow from the morning of November 10 through the morning of November 14. That’s over four feet of snow in four days! This part of the country is no stranger to snow, but the residents of this community aren’t used to seeing this much snow at one time, especially this early in the season. Winter Storm “Astro”, followed by lake-effect snow, caused the huge snow accumulations in Gile. The Duluth News Tribune explains this in a recent article:

Conditions have been nearly perfect in recent days to create lake-effect snow along Lake Superior’s South Shore, including in Gile in Iron County. With cold northwest winds blowing across the still-warm surface waters of Lake Superior, moisture from the lake evaporates into the air, then blows on shore, elevates into clouds and — when it gets far enough inland — falls as snow.

This snowstorm will definitely be breaking some records in state history.