The weather will be rather quiet on Wednesday with plenty of sunshine and high temperatures in the mid-forties while clouds move back in on Thursday with the chance for a few light rain showers. Opening day is looking good with a few clouds but high temperatures around fifty degrees.
While spring begins in March the real transition from winter to spring occurs during this month in Milwaukee. During April you can experience snow storms, chilly temperatures, maximum temperatures in the low-nineties and severe thunderstorms with tornadoes. Today’s date is the anniversary of two opposite weather events that puts this month’s weather in perspective. On April 2nd in 1975 a snow storm dropped 10.4 inches of snow on the Milwaukee area. Just two years later on this date a tornado touched down in Brookfield destroying eight homes and damaging 166 more along and near North Avenue, lifting near the Mayfair Shopping Center.
Most of the extreme weather during this month has occurred during the first two weeks, especially the bigger snowstorms. Heavy snow struck Milwaukee on the 5th in 1982, the 7th in 2007 and in 1973 about fifteen inches accumulated from the 8th through the 12th. Damaging to deadly tornadoes struck southeast Wisconsin on the 4th in 1981, the 2nd in 1977 and on the 11th in 1965 during the Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak.