Two rounds of rain, snow will dampen area this week
With thousands of children home from school and parents working from their kitchen tables, at least the weather has been nice to send kids outside.
But that will end soon as two rounds of rain and possibly rain/snow mixes or thunderstorms are in the forecast in southeastern Wisconsin Wednesday through Friday.
Enjoy today while the sun still shines. A low pressure system currently hovering over the Rocky Mountains is expected to push in to Wisconsin on Wednesday and drop plenty of precipitation, according to the National Weather Service.
It’s possible a rain/snow mix could fall before sunrise on Wednesday but depending on which weather models end up being correct, it’s likely to be only rain throughout the day in the metro Milwaukee area, starting in the morning, said Aidan Kuroski, a National Weather Service meteorologist based in Sullivan.
Areas to the north and northwest of Milwaukee, from Jefferson County to Ozaukee County could get a mix of rain and snow.
Winds are expected to be light on Wednesday with temperatures getting up to only 41, so expect a cold, biting rain.
Raindrops will likely finish Wednesday evening. Then another round is forecast on Thursday, which could bring more severe weather, Kuroski said.
“The interesting thing with this system, we could see a few thunderstorms Thursday evening,” said Kuroski. “It would be our first thunderstorms of the season. It will be a fairly quick moving system, but it should be fairly wet over the next couple days.”
Temperatures are predicted to rise into the low 50s on Thursday but then drop to a high of only low 30s on Friday.
Rain could range from a quarter to half an inch on Wednesday followed by half an inch to three-quarters of an inch for the Thursday/Friday rain.
The last of the rain is forecast to move out of southern Wisconsin by Friday evening. And there’s decent news for the weekend — the forecast calls for sunny skies but high temperatures only in the mid-30s.