- Highs in the middle to upper 40s across southern Wisconsin today
- Mild temperatures into next week
- Highs in the 70s by Monday and Tuesday
MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) – A wave of low-pressure tracking across the Illinois border is the primary driver for our current weather shift in South Central Wisconsin. As this surface low slides to our south today, it is pulling a plume of moisture into the Madison area, resulting in light rain and drizzle early today.
From a weather perspective, we are positioned on the cooler, northern flank of the system, which is keeping the atmosphere stable enough to suppress thunderstorm activity for now. Temperatures today will hold fairly steady, peaking in the middle 40s.
What’s Coming Up…
As we move into Friday, a much more robust mid-latitude low pressure system developing over the Rockies will track toward the Upper Mississippi Valley. This will tighten the pressure gradient across the region, shifting our winds to the south and ushering in a much more active pattern.
This second system brings high confidence for widespread rainfall and the potential for embedded thunderstorms as we enter the warm sector of the storm…