Tonight, a cold front moved through Western Wisconsin, moving the winds to the west and northwest and adding more clouds and a few showers here and there. By morning, the temperature will have slowly dropped into the low to mid-40s. There will be some clouds in the morning, but the sun will come back out for most of Wednesday. In the afternoon, the gusty northwest winds will slowly die down.
During the day, a system of high pressure will move eastward across the Plains and into the Midwest. This will bring back more normal late-October temperatures, with highs in the mid-50s.
The upper-level trend is becoming less wavy for the rest of the week, which means that weather systems will move across the country more quickly. Overall, this will keep our temperatures closer to normal, and the dry weather trend will mostly stay the same. The sun will come out at first on Thursday, but clouds will build up before the next storm. Highs will rise back into the 60s. A low-pressure system will move farther south, and a cold front will come in from the west.
These features are likely to stay separate, which means that another chance for some much-needed rain this month will likely be lost. It might rain by the end of the day, but the best chances look like they will come Thursday night when the front moves through Western Wisconsin. Even with these changes, the numbers are likely to stay low. The next big high-pressure system will move across the Midwest from the Plains on Friday and into the weekend. It will bring sunny days and highs in the 50s. It will be cooler after Sunday and early next week because we will be on the back end of the high.
