Milwaukee, WI weather
Right now 73° · today 72° / 56°, sunny · seven days from the National Weather Service
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Right now · 73° · 14° warmer than this time yesterday · at General Mitchell, 4:40 PM
Today, in the Weather Service’s words
Sunny, with a high near 72. Southwest wind around 15 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.
Seven days
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.
Sources: National Weather Service forecast and hourly grid for Milwaukee (api.weather.gov), updated Tue, 5:11 PM UTC. Sunrise and sunset from NOAA’s solar position calculations. Snowfall normals from NOAA’s 1991-2020 US Climate Normals. County lines from the US Census Bureau.