The warm spell will slowly come to an end today as temperatures drop through the sixties and by tomorrow high temperatures will settle into the forty degree range. Showers and thunderstorms will accompany a cold front rolling through Wisconsin today and behind that front colder air and the chance for snow showers and flurries into the first part of the weekend. The colder weather pattern will dominate through the weekend and into the early part of next week.

Yesterday’s high temperature of seventy-degrees in Milwaukee ended a three day spell of seventy degrees or greater temperatures, an unprecedented event based upon data that runs back to 1871. Monday’s high temperature was seventy-three degrees while Tuesday set a daily record with another 73 degree maximum temperature. During the past one hundred thirty-six years there have been only six occurrences of consecutive seventy-degree temperatures in November in Milwaukee, and until this week there have never been three in a row. The years of the two in a row seventy-degree days were 1931, 1938, 1944, 1964, 1990 and 1999.

The warmest temperature for November in Milwaukee was 77 degrees set on a few occasions, while the latest date for an occurrence of seventy-degrees or warmer was November 21st in 1913 when the high temperature was 70 degrees.