Milwaukee, WI weather
Today 76° / 60°
Today's Forecast
A chance of rain showers before 4pm. Cloudy, with a high near 76. Southwest wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
7-Day Outlook
Data from the National Weather Service
Last updated Tue, Sep 15, 4:31 PM UTC
Winter in Milwaukee
Milwaukee averages 40 inches of snow a year, according to NOAA’s 1991–2020 climate normals - a regular snow place. Snow several times a winter, well-practised response. Closures happen but need a real storm.
That is why local snowfall thresholds differ so much from one town to the next: a district that plans for 40 inches a year is equipped differently from one that never sees any. Here, roughly 6 inches in a single storm is where a normal school day comes under threat.
Upper air over Milwaukee
The nearest radiosonde launch is Green Bay, about 100 miles away. A weather balloon goes up twice a day and measures temperature, humidity and wind all the way through the atmosphere - which is what forecasters actually read to judge whether storms will fire, and how a surface forecast was arrived at.