Cold temperatures and lake effect on the way

Good Wednesday afternoon. I'm Chief Meteorologist Emily Walls. We have scattered showers out there right now and occasionally we've had a couple thunderstorms here or there, but no severe thunderstorms are expected for the rest of today. Satellite and radar, you can see that we still have that low pressure system moving through. So scattered showers are going to continue through at least about 6 or 7 p.m. Then we'll get a brief break, but as our winds turn northerly tonight, that colder air is going to rush in. That's going to be the perfect recipe for some lake effect showers as we go into the later overnight hours and then certainly into your Thursday. So tomorrow we'll have lake effect showers. Occasionally brief heavy downpours could be possible. But of course, this is going to be favoring areas at the southern base of the lake there. So this is including right along the state line and then mainly over in northwest Indiana. And then that's going to kind of set the tone for the next couple of days here. So on Friday, it's still going to be very chilly. We'll have low temperatures that are going to be right around the freezing mark, high temperatures that are expected to be in the lower 40s. So the air is going to be cold enough that we'll start to see that mixing in with some wet snow. Little to no accumulation expected with this, but nonetheless, it is going to be something that we have to monitor very closely because occasionally with some lake effect, You know, that can get pretty heavy, reducing visibility. So we'll have to watch that as we go throughout your Friday. And then going into Saturday, we'll see a downward trend with the overall coverage of the showers. You can see there's a few spotty or isolated rain showers possible on Saturday. But most of us are going to be enjoying some sunshine. Skies are going to become partly cloudy. And your temperatures, they are still going to be pretty chilly. We're waking up near freezing. And then your high temperatures are only expected to be in the mid-40s for highs on Saturday. For tonight, we're planning on overnight low temperatures that are going down into the upper 30s for most of the suburbs, but low 40s in the city. I think in the city of Chicago, we're actually going to drop down to about 40 degrees. But it's going to feel a lot colder because we'll have winds gusting as high as about 25 miles per hour. And then tomorrow, we'll have north winds gusting as high as 30 miles per hour. So that's going to make a huge difference on just how cold it feels to us. 46 degrees is your high temperature on Thursday, but it's likely going to be feeling more like the 30s. On Friday, we'll have a high of 43. Windchills are not going to make it out of the 30s. Over the weekend, we'll see some sunshine. Highs are going to be in the mid to upper 40s. And then we are looking towards sunshine and 50s early next week.