Friday, May 10, 2013

Forecast for Western/Northwestern WI

After our little brief warm up, people are now asking what happen to spring again....2013 has been a year without a spring....This weekend will feel more like a fall weekend than a spring weekend.... Normal highs...Today...66 Forecasted high of 60....-6 degree below normal....Saturday normal high is 66. Forecasted high of 48...-18 below normal...Sunday normal high is 66 forecasted high of 50...-16 below normal....Lows will be cold also...38 tonight 27 Saturday night 33 Sunday night......No spring in the Northwoods.....Monday still looks to be cold with below normal temps....Good news is there is another warm up on its way....More on that in a few......

***CURRENT CONDITIONS***

All stations reporting sunny skies, temps in the lower 50s....Winds from the North/Northeast from 5 to 6 MPH..EAU reporting wind gust up to 17 MPH....

Dewpoints across the area are in the lower to middle 20s.


***FORECAST DISCUSSION***

Look for late October/early November temps for this weekend.....For today High pressure North of Lake Superior will keep a dry cold flow over the area....This will keep skies sunny throughout the day.....Winds should begin to slacking off as we head through the afternoon....Meanwhile we will see a weak cold front move into the area later tonight, this will bring another reinforcing shot of cold air....Moisture is limited with this cold front, however we still be see a good chance of showers later tonight....Front sweeps through the area rather fast...So look for clearing skies to start your Saturday....Winds tomorrow will be brisk from the Northwest 10 to 20 MPH with gust up to 25 MPH...Saturday night the winds die off and under clear skies look out we could be looking a a hard freeze event, frost will be likely at the least......Sunday will shine with sunny skies, but temps will still be cold! Sunday night should see another round of frost...Monday we will see a warm front slowly starting to work its way towards the area......This should spark off some showers and thunderstorms.....Temps will still be running below normal.....Tuesday is going to be a pain in the butt with temps.....Warm front is forecasted to push into my Western areas....Now if this warm front clears the whole forecast area this would be easy...Some computer models not seeing eye to eye on far the front will make it on Tuesday....West of the warm front temps soar into the middle to upper 80s, while East of the front temps reach for the lower 80s....Warn front will have cleared the whole area Tuesday night, only to be followed by a cold front Tuesday night.....This will knock the temps back into the 70s for the rest of the week......Also there will be a chance of showers and thunderstorms for the rest of the week....Severe thunderstorms seen unlikely at this time......

To sum it up....

This weekend will be cold, followed by a warm up, then followed by a slight cool down....Showers tonight....Then dry the rest of the weekend.....Then off and on chances of showers and thunderstorms......