4Warn Weather – We’ve got a roller coaster forecast on the way looking ahead throughout the next seven days.
After a cold front moved through late last night, some of us may have seen a few snowflakes overnight last night and early this morning.
We will keep some cloud cover to start the day on Saturday but decreasing cloud cover will continue with sunshine moving in as we work throughout the day. Colder temperatures will be sticking around today, high temperature is only heading for the low end of the 30s by Saturday afternoon.
We will keep a little cloud cover into the forecast overnight tonight, it’ll be a cold overnight tonight as well. Overnight lows dropping into the 20s by early Sunday morning.
High-pressure will control the forecast to end the weekend and start the work week next week. As the high-pressure center moves off to the east, a warming trend will move in for the end of the weekend and the start of next week. Temperatures running at least 15° warmer to end the weekend than we will to start the weekend. High temperature is heading for the upper 40s on Sunday, and into the lower 50s by Monday.
Storm chances
Our attention turns to a much stronger system, heading our way looking ahead into the first part of next week. This will be with the chance of rain showers, and maybe an isolated thunderstorm late Tuesday night, before the rain showers turn into a few brief snow showers Wednesday as our cold front passes off to the east and colder air moves into the region.
The Storm Prediction Center has highlighted a good portion of the central United States into the Ohio Valley in a risk for severe weather on Tuesday and Wednesday. That does include parts of Southeastern Michigan on Tuesday as the cold front moves through the region, primarily west of Metro Detroit.
It will be increasingly breezy as we had throughout the day on Tuesday, so, if any thunderstorms do develop, gusty winds will be the primary threat. It will be unseasonably warm before the cold moves through. High temperatures heading for the lower 60s on Tuesday afternoon, then back into the 50s behind the cold front on Wednesday. With this strong frontal bound removing through, it will also be increasingly breezy if not windy on Tuesday and Wednesday. Winds gusting as high as 35 miles an hour can be expected on both days.
Drier weather works into the region for Thursday and Friday, with temperatures heading for the 50s on Thursday, then dropping into the 40s by the time we get to the end of the week on Friday.