Milwaukee weather: Temperatures will be warming

It's still doing lake things. Yeah, rain, rain, but it's staying over the lake, so that's good. We're quiet here in southeast Wisconsin, and honestly, we have been quiet. It's just been that chance that we've been watching for some of those lakeside communities. And guess what? I get even happier. As we head over the weekend, because we got a happy holiday forecast in full effect, that's what I'm wearing the yellow for, because this is going to induce more of the sunshine for you over the weekend and into next week. Now, as for today, we got to 43 degrees for a high temperature. That's a little bit below what our average is, which is 49 degrees. However, we're going to be warming above 49 as we head towards next week. Now, we look at our conditions here. We're at 36 degrees here in Milwaukee. Our dew points are right at 30. And no, excuse me, our feels like temperature is at 30. Our dew points are at 25 wind from the northwest at about eight miles per hour. Now, looking at those temperatures versus the wind chills here, you're noticing that we're seeing wind chill values in the mid 20s. That's cold. You're going to need to have to have those layers when you go outdoors. Our regular temperatures in the 30s, we've got a few areas that are near that freezing mark and one area below freezing, which is Janesville. We all will continue to drop perhaps below freezing tonight. Looking at our temperatures and how they've changed over the last 24 hours, we've seen some changes, cooler changes at that. However, not that significant of a change. I mean, Burlington and Janesville is probably the biggest of a change we have across our area here, and they're about seven degrees. Looking at our temperatures and how they'll trend throughout tonight, what you're noticing is that we will Stay in the 30s at least. We'll land to the lower 30s tonight. Some areas could even get to the upper 20s. And also, too, don't forget about those wind chill values as well. They will go down as much as those temperatures go down, as long as we have wind present. And right now, we've got a little bit of a breeze going on. Look at our satellite and radar here. We are nice and dry, so we've got a lot of good things that are to come. The first thing is sunshine. We're going to be having more of that over the weekend and next week. That is thanks to a high pressure system that's kind of building into the area. So that's going to keep the state entirely dry. Now, you do see there Marquette still got a little bit more of that lake effect snow for their area. And then just over the lake here, you got some lake effect rain. Now, as those wind speeds or wind directions start to shift from the northwest. Like that, that is going to push a lot more of this rain over into Michigan, so we won't necessarily get in on that unless the winds were to turn to the northeast, and that's not going to be the case. We're going to get southwesterly flow of wind heading towards the weekend and next week. And that's what's going to induce us to have more of that warm up or that's going to pretty much get us to warming up. Looking at our Sky Vision Plus here, you'll notice that it's going to be staying pretty quiet. We have nothing that's going to be going on besides tracking sunshine and clouds in the area. So I hope you have a weekend full of plans. You're going to want to have some plans because the weather is going to be nice. It is going to be cold, though, so I must remind you that you do need to have those layers, especially over the weekend. It will be a little bit cooler and those wind chills could be at a lower value as well. Otherwise, we warm up heading towards next week. Maybe not warm enough to have lunch outdoors, but at least it'll be warm enough where it's going to be bearable again. We do keep those cold nights ahead of us here, and we'll be in the mid-50s by Wednesday. The next time we track rain won't be at least until Thursday, and that's going to be a slight chance of rain at this point. But until then, just enjoy all the sunshine.