Breezy and Cooler Weekend...Nice Warm Up Early Next Week

A Pacific system will move across the area tonight with frontal passage around midnight.  There is enough moisture with the system so that it may generate a little snow, but only about 1/2" is expected. Drier air will follow in right behind the front shutting down the precipitation. A brisk breeze will set up across the area late tonight with winds gusting to 25 mph. Skies will start out mostly sunny on Saturday, but become partly cloudy in the afternoon. It will be windy with westerly winds 15-25 mph with gusts to 35 mph, and the high temperature will be in the low 30's A fast moving Alberta Clipper System will approach out of the northern plains on Saturday evening increasing the clouds after dark, and bring the Stateline a chance of light snow overnight. It will be quite breezy on Sunday morning with a brief shot of colder Canadian air. It will be breezy through mid-day when the wind should diminish. The afternoon high temperature will be around 27 degrees. That cool bubble will push quickly off to the east with a warm front stretching from the southern tip of Illinois northwest across the Dakotas into southwestern Canada by 6 am on Monday. The front will push northeast across the area on Monday raising temperatures back to around 40 degrees by Monday afternoon. The mild air from the plains will be in place on Tuesday, so our region can once again expect a high in the 40's under mostly cloudy skies with a chance of some light rain showers. The next Pacific cool front will move through the Stateline on Tuesday night, and temperatures will be mild with a low around freezing along with a chance of a little light rain or snow. There will not be much of drop in temperatures on Wednesday. Keep in mind that the air behind the front originated over the Pacific ocean. The high on Wednesday will once again reach 40 degrees, even though the average high this time of year is in the low 30's. There still is not any severe cold arctic cold air in sight.