A Wintry Presence with Spring to Follow

 It was a much nicer day in the Stateline, finally getting to see some sunshine which helped warm us up into the 40's this afternoon.  However, we're still on the cold side, having seen multiple days below average and also still having to deal with snow in the middle of April.  Sadly, winter makes another presence, and another mixed bag of precipitation is on the way.

Winter Weather Advisories will go into effect starting at 7:00am Wednesday, and go until 7:00pm Wednesday evening.  You'll definitely want to start considering travel conditions, as they will be poor for the entire day due to multiple forms of precipitation.

As far as timing is concerned we'll start seeing this wintry mix move into the Stateline after 7am, bringing a mix of freezing rain and sleet around 10am.  The freezing rain will die off by noon, with light snow and sleet being mixed for the early hours of the afternoon.  Once we get passed 2pm, we'll start seeing snow becoming more dominate, and it'll stay that way into the evening.

The good news is that accumulations will be small, with most areas seeing around 1.5 inches of snow, with 2 inches up in southern Wisconsin.


The snow will clear out after 1am Thursday, as a high pressure system will move in from the northwest to bring some drier weather to our area. This will also be a strong high pressure system, which means that we'll be expecting quite a bit of sunshine after Wednesday, and all that sunshine will gradually warm us up heading into the weekend.

This high pressure system is expected to stick around for a while, as the pattern change in the upper levels of the atmosphere will be able to keep it strong. It'll be a little cloudy on Saturday with a small low passing by, but otherwise we're expecting sunshine and warming temperatures into early next week!