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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		The Ice Storm of 1922
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:02:43
	Publish Date:		2019-01-16 05:03:00
	Description:		This week on A Northwoods Moment in History , Gary Entz looks back on an ice storm that happened in Wisconsin back in 1922. People who live and work in the Northwoods are accustomed to cold temperatures, ice, and snow. No matter what time period in history we look at, people adapted and dealt with the weather conditions. However, every once in a while the weather packs an unusual wallop, and sometimes it is so severe that it can even bring hardy Northwoods residents to a standstill. Such was the case with an ice storm that struck Wisconsin in February 1922. An ice storm can happen when rain forms in a layer of warm air but then falls through a thin layer of below-freezing air right near the surface of the earth. Ice accumulates when super-cold rain freezes on contact with physical surfaces that are below the freezing point. On the afternoon of February 21, 1922, a low pressure system that can cause this sort of weather moved northeast out of the Great Plains and by February 22 it was
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