GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – We’ve had a string of warm days this week, making November weather a bit nicer than usual. But unfortunately, this is Wisconsin and it won’t last forever.
“The normal high for this time of year is right around 48 degrees for the Green Bay area,” said National Weather Service Forecaster Scott Cultice. “We’ve been averaging anywhere between 15 to 20 degrees above normal into the mid-upper sixties here in the Fox Valley and lower seventies across central, north central portions of Wisconsin.”
That will likely be the status quo through Monday, with little to no rain and mostly abundant sunshine – which Cultice says will warm things up quickly in the late morning into the afternoon hours.
“Friday or Saturday, we might be breaking a few record high temperatures here in the Fox Valley. They’ve been breaking the high temperatures out the central, north central portions away from Lake Michigan, but I think our turn is going to be coming up here,” Cultice predicted.
The forecaster also explained what is causing the bump in the numbers this month.
“A pretty good ridge has built off the Atlantic seaboard and it’s kind of in a blocking pattern with fronts off to our west, and now we’re just kind of stuck in the southwest to west flow,” Cultice said.
But he also reminds everyone that we are in Wisconsin, and winter is coming.
“Enjoy what you get here for the next five days…This is November, and it’s just a matter of time before the weather flips and goes back we should be. It looks like that’s going to start Tuesday of next week,” Cultice told WTAQ News. “It’ll be a quick abrupt fall. We’ll have a major cold-front, probably see some showers coming through, then the wind shifting. [And we’ll be] back to where we should be this time of year, back in the forties for highs…I think even colder weather for next, next week is it’s looking like.”
Cultice says, as per usual, we likely won’t see temperatures rise to this level again until sometime this spring. He estimated that the next time we break 60 degrees could be in May.
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