MINUS 2 WIND CHILL? TIME TO SURF! Beloit church welcomes pets
Kenosha cancels polar plunge
With temperatures and wind chills plunging to dangerously low temperatures, organizers of the Kenosha polar bear plunge have canceled the event for New Year’s morning.
A message on the website of Diver Dan’s Scuba & Aquatic Center in Kenosha reported that the decision to cancel was based on the cold wind chills. The event is normally held at 11 a.m. in Lake Michigan on New Year’s Day.
The Milwaukee Polar Bear Plunge at noon Monday in Lake Michigan is still scheduled, though a message on the website warns:
polarplungemilwaukee.com Due to the extreme cold conditions expected on January 1st, 2018 it is recommended by medical professionals that you do not participate in this event. There are several other Polar Plunges in 2018 when the weather conditions may be more favorable. If you choose to participate, you are doing so at your own risk.
The National Weather Service issued a wind chill advisory for Sunday evening into New Year’s Day and warned it may issue another advisory Monday evening through Tuesday because the deep freeze is expected to stick around.
High temperatures will rise only to the single digits to lower teens, with lows of 5 above to 10 below zero. Wind chill values will be minus 20 to minus 30 degrees at times over the next several days.
Cold weather suspected in death
A man’s body found in the 3100 block of N. Humboldt Blvd. in Milwaukee likely is a cold-weather death, according to the Milwaukee County medical examiner’s office.
The office was called about 12:30 p.m. Sunday. The body of a man in his 50s was found in a vehicle in an alley behind the man’s residence, according to the medical examiner.
The man’s identity had not been released as of 5 p.m. Sunday because his family had
not yet been notified.
Starting Jan. 28, Gridley Congregational Church in Beloit is inviting churchgoers to bring their pets to services on the last Sunday of each month.
Pets should preferably be on a leash, or in a cage, if necessary, the Beloit Daily News reports.
Man dies in house fire
TOWN OF GRANT – A man died in a house fire in western Wisconsin, authorities said.
Crews were called to the home in the Town of Grant in Dunn County just before 5 p.m. Saturday. Firefighters found the man, who lived at the home, dead inside the house and removed him. No one else lived at the home.
The name of the victim was being withheld until family members were notified. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.