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A woman and her
15-year-old sister died when their van crossed over the median
of a slippery highway in the city of Hartford around 11:10 a.m.
local time and crashed into an oncoming semi-truck, the
Washington County Sheriff's Office said. The truck driver, a
61-year-old from Ontario, Canada, was not injured.
National Weather Service meteorologist Bob McMahon in Milwaukee
said sleet was falling in Washington County before it received
as many as two inches of snow by the evening. McMahon said
northern and central Wisconsin bore the brunt of the storm,
pummeled by a band that dropped up to 12 inches (30 cm) of snow.
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker declared a state of emergency on
Wednesday in response to severe winter weather and blizzard
conditions.
Snow is predicted again for parts of Colorado late on Friday and
Saturday, but conditions will not be as severe as they were on
Wednesday, when areas of the state saw up to more than two feet
(60 cm) of snow and the Denver International Airport shut down,
National Weather Service forecaster Andrew Orrison said.
"We're not expecting snow like what we just had," Orrison said.
A cold front moved across Louisiana, which received heavy
showers and thunderstorms in the southeastern part of the state,
Orrison said. The rain had dissipated by Thursday afternoon,
forecasters said.
A tornado watch was in effect until 7 p.m. CDT on Thursday for
the central Gulf Coast region, from Gulfport, Mississippi, to
Panama City, Florida, in the western half of the Florida
panhandle, forecasters said.
In addition, Mobile, Alabama, issued a flash flood warning that
was in effect until 4 p.m. CDT on Thursday after the airport
there saw more than 2.5 inches (5 cm) of rain in about 1-1/2
hours, a forecaster said.
(Reporting by Suzannah Gonzales and Curtis Skinner; Editing by
Sandra Maler)
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