The storm system that brought over an inch of rain to much of the Milwaukee area and a new snow cover to parts of extreme northern Wisconsin has moved out and cool air has moved into the state. The cool down will last only one day as warmer air rolls in for the remainder of the week.
Ii is interesting to note that if the temperatures would have been about four or five degrees colder on Monday there is a good chance Milwaukee would have broken or tied the snowiest season record. Rainfall at the airport was over an inch on Monday, and that would have translated into ten or eleven inches of new snow. We need eleven inches to set a new snowiest season on record for Milwaukee.
April does get snow at times in Wisconsin’s biggest city with a monthly average of 2.6 inches. It is also a wet month at times as average precipitation for the month jumps to 3.78 inches. Average high temperatures start at 48 degrees but by the end of the month is at sixty degrees, and there have been record maximum temperatures in the low nineties. There have been temperatures that drop below freezing but none that have fallen below zero in this month in Milwaukee.