Milwaukee weather: Dense Fog Tonight, Beautiful Friday

Take a look at this. This is a live look from our Estabrook Park Tower camera. It's at about a thousand feet up, and you can see the stratus cloud. I am looking just east from the weather deck, and it's thickening up just off camera here as well, but this goes to show how thin the fog layer is, and I'm telling you, it's thickening up here tonight, and it's going to be thick as we go throughout the night. Northeasterly winds, that's blowing in that cooler air why the fog though and we talked about this last night last night dew points were in the 40s so we didn't have a ton of fog this morning meanwhile the dew point has really gone up now to 57 and when the air temperature and the dew point are equal that's when you get the fog and it is going to be thick tonight dense fog expected until about 10 o'clock tomorrow morning now temperatures see what i mean here 59 Plymouth 58 Grafton 70 in Bristol so that northeast wind is bringing in that cooler lake air that in turn is causing the temperature to drop towards the dew point that's why we're seeing the dense fog along the lake shore not so much inland at this point but as our inland communities cool that's when the fog will form so it'll be a bit later for you in our far inland counties i mean look at this 58 Milwaukee 71 Madison 74 out in La Crosse and in the Twin Cities. Skies are clear. Well, that's above the fog, right? As we broaden out the view for you, stormy weather continuing down to the southwest with tornado and severe thunderstorm watches going on in the southwest. That's not a concern for us around here, but let's get into Sky Vision Plus, talk more about the fog potential, because again, it's really going to thicken up. You see how it starts to work its way a bit more inland as we head throughout the nighttime hours tonight and i think it's going to be quite dense here until about 10 o'clock tomorrow morning then that fog will burn off and no real threat for fog tomorrow night because dew points will be lower so that's good news but again this is the model picking up on the fog itself here and there you can see through the overnight into the morning hours tomorrow and then as we go into the afternoon abundant sunshine beautiful day on the way for our friday and then A few high clouds come in as we go into our Friday afternoon and evening. But again, temperatures in the morning will be in the 40s to low 50s. Dense fog in the forecast tonight. I want to show you your tailgate forecast because we are going to be seeing those temperatures in the 60s for Friday and 70s on Saturday, at least to start for tailgating. So it is looking gorgeous for game one and game two. Now, big drop in temperature early next week. Rain chances creep back in, especially towards Tuesday. Highs in the 50s early next week.