Milwaukee weather: Showers Wednesday

But it also kind of messed up the timeline of what we think of as seasonal weather because we were playing baseball and then the next thing it's Thanksgiving, which is okay. We will adjust very nicely. But the next couple of days are going to adjust you whether you like it or not, because yesterday was also kind of this, you know, weird, not quite accurate moment. And yet here we are getting back into more November gear. We hit the 64 yesterday. Here we are today tracking some showers coming in from the west and this low is going to bring in that shower activity as we go through the midday into the afternoon. And then this trailing cold front is really going to course correct things and get a much cooler than average air mass in place. We haven't had a lot of that through most of October and now early November. So once this cold front drops through. That colder air mass also engages with the lakes. You see some lake-effect snow up in the parts of the UP and far northern Wisconsin. And for us, what we'll likely see is some lake-effect rain, but we'll keep an eye on that. Let's go look ahead with Sky Vision Plus. Now, short-term, we're looking at some gray skies. And then the showers pick up as we go through the late morning and midday. It stays pretty active into the early afternoon and then should start to settle down late afternoon and evening. May not be perfectly dry through that stretch, but drier conditions. Then, as we go into the longer range here, Thursday picks back up with a few spotty showers. Now, the goal of this is to keep it high in that band out over Lake Michigan. The wind will be much stronger, and as long as that wind is predominantly north or even north-northwest, it'll keep most of that lake effect precipitation out over Lake Michigan. But any turn to the north-northeast brings it a little farther inland, so we'll be watching that pretty closely. Right now I'm expecting to see a few showers, mostly lakeside on Thursday, maybe depending on the time of day, maybe mixing in with a few flakes, but not a major event for us. And then that kind of winds down throughout the day on Friday and we get back to partly sunny skies by Friday afternoon. Now, Fox Weather Model, a little more aggressive on the snowier side of things. Each forecast model has its own mathematics, if you will. So it does kind of look at the atmosphere slightly differently. Fox Weather Model, I think, is a little too cold in this case. And that's why it's producing so much more in the way of snow and wintry mix out over the lake. But. Definitely worth keeping an eye on and we can see things settling down, looking really nice heading into the weekend as far as atmospheric conditions, although we will be in a much cooler air mass both days. Today will actually still end up being an above average day. The average high is only 50. Yesterday got to 64. We'll get to about 52, 54 today. We'll drop back down into the 30s overnight tonight. So my forecast high is 54, low is 36. That does put us above average for both the high and the low. Not quite into record territory at either extreme. And then, even as this cold air rolls in, we're not talking about record-setting stuff, but it is going to end up being 5, 8 degrees cooler than average through Thursday, Friday, and into the weekend. And again, that does come across the lakes to help out with some of that lake effect precipitation. So our Fox 6-Day Planner starts off here at 54, drops to 44 Thursday and Friday, bounces back to 46 Saturday, 48 Sunday, and all the way back to 50 by Monday. We're all the way back to wake up right after this.