Frigid Valentine's Day

Got plans for Valentine's Day? It's not too late to have a nice, quiet night at home. Looking at the forecast, it might be a more romantic gesture to not go out!

The forecast starts with temperatures going the wrong way heading into the afternoon. Morning "lows" will start at around 10° before cooling into the single digits for the afternoon. We could see a light snow shower or flurries in the morning, but the bigger story will be the wind and how it makes the cold even worse. Because of frigid wind chills, the First Warn Weatherisk will be at Moderate.

Wind chills will be below 0° Friday night and get progressively worse into Sunday morning. Winds could gust as high as 35-40mph during the day Saturday. Even with winds calming Saturday night, temperatures will plunge below zero, meaning it won't take much wind to get wind chills as cold as -30° by Sunday morning.

The National Weather Service in Milwaukee has already put southern Wisconsin under a Wind Chill Advisory for Saturday night because of the cold. I wouldn't be surprised if northern Illinois gets added to that advisory sometime Saturday. Either way, it is going to be dangerously cold the later into Valentine's Day we get. Stay warm and stay safe! -BA