4Warn Weather – Our Wednesday begins seasonally cool, but still an improvement from Tuesday with our “feels-like” temperatures about 10 degrees warmer today.
Some lingering cloud cover will thin throughout the morning.
Skies will turn mostly sunny this afternoon. High temperatures will rise back above average to around 40 degrees.
Tonight’s sunset is at 5:04 p.m. The days will start getting longer again after Thursday!
We’ll have partly cloudy skies and seasonal temperatures tonight with lows in the upper 20s.
Rain on the way
Temperatures kind of plateau around 40 degrees for the rest of the work week.
Our next rain chances arrive on Friday.
Scattered, isolated showers could roll through before sunrise on Friday, particularly for those in our southernmost counties. Computer models show a brief midday break from the rain before more widespread showers arrive around 3 p.m., and move north and eastward through Metro Detroit through the rest of the day.
We could see some lingering showers early on Saturday, as well.
Mild weekend, warm Christmas
We’ll have a cloudy and milder weekend with highs in the mid- to upper 40s.
It won’t be a white Christmas, since temperatures are looking to climb to around 50 degrees on Christmas Day. We’ll also have a chance for scattered rain showers on Monday, though southern Lower Michigan shouldn’t see much until nighttime.
Christmas rain showers are possible earlier in the day for those on the western and northern edges of the Lower Peninsula.
Rain chances will linger into Tuesday, so if you are traveling around the holiday, you could be dodging some rain before and after Christmas.
Elsewhere ...
Nationally, freeze warnings drape the Florida-Georgia line as cooler air sinks far south. A series of Pacific storms will bring rain, snow and gusty winds to California. Heavy rainfall may produce flash flooding and mud/debris flows, especially in wildfire burn scars. Widespread river flooding will continue over the Northeast, and in portions of the mid-Atlantic this week.
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