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WISCONSIN WEATHER SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
450 AM CDT SAT MAY 25 2013

.YESTERDAY...

HIGH PRESSURE DOMINATED WISCONSIN AND LED TO CLEAR SKIES AND DRY
WEATHER THROUGHOUT THE DAY. SCATTERED THIN CLOUDS STARTED TO MOVE IN
ACROSS THE WESTERN PART OF THE STATE IN THE AFTERNOON AHEAD OF AN
AREA OF LOW PRESSURE.

TEMPERATURES WERE 5 TO 10 DEGREES COLDER THAN NORMAL. HIGHS RANGED
FROM THE 50S IN EASTERN WISCONSIN TO THE MID 60S IN THE WESTERN PART
OF THE STATE.

.OVERNIGHT...

A WARM FRONT MOVING INTO THE UPPER MIDWEST AHEAD OF LOW PRESSURE
DEVELOPING IN THE PLAINS TRIGGERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER
MINNESOTA AND IOWA LAST EVENING. THEY GRADUALLY SPREAD INTO
SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN OVERNIGHT. THE SHOWERS ENCOUNTERED HIGH PRESSURE
AND DRY AIR AS THEY MOVED EAST AND SLOWLY DISSIPATED DURING THE
MORNING.

ELSEWHERE...HIGH CLOUDS SPREAD ACROSS WISCONSIN. LOW TEMPERATURES
RANGED FROM THE UPPER 30S NORTHEAST TO THE LOWER 50S SOUTHWEST.

.FORECAST...

A FRONT STALLED OVER THE MINNESOTA...IOWA...ILLINOIS AREA WILL BE
THE FOCUS FOR REPEATED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THIS WEEKEND. THERE
IS A CHANCE FOR THE SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS TO SPILL OVER
INTO SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN AT TIMES FROM LATER TODAY INTO SUNDAY
NIGHT. THE WARM FRONT WILL NUDGE NORTHEASTWARD ON MEMORIAL DAY AND
BRING INCREASING CHANCES FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO ALL OF
WISCONSIN THROUGH TUESDAY.

CLOUDS AND SOUTHEAST WINDS WILL KEEP TEMPERATURES RELATIVELY COOL
THROUGH THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND...WITH INLAND HIGHS MAINLY IN THE 60S.
THEN SUMMER-LIKE TEMPERATURES WILL RETURN FOR THE LAST HALF OF NEXT
WEEK.

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SM/MRC