After fall-like weekend, Wisconsin weather turns warmer and will stick around in September

After a weekend of brisk, fall-like weather, warmer temperatures will return this week and likely last through most of September.

"We've had that nice taste of fall the last couple days, where we've been in the 60s, but the warm-up starts in earnest today," National Weather Service meteorologist Andrew Quigley said. "By the time we get to tomorrow afternoon, many locations away from that immediate Lake Michigan shoreline will get up in the lower 80s."

Highs will be in the mid-to-upper 80s throughout the week. Monday and Tuesday will be around 84 degrees, and the warm weather will peak at 87 on Wednesday and 88 on Thursday, according to the NWS forecast.

Those temperatures are between five and 15 degrees higher than normal for early-to-mid September in the Milwaukee area. That will still put Milwaukee beneath the record marks; current record highs for September are in the upper-90s.

"That makes sense, we're still in the first half of September. We're kind of beginning that transition from summer to fall, but we're not firmly into fall yet," Quigley said.

There's also a high chance that temperatures will remain above average for the next week or two in Wisconsin, and throughout most of the Midwest.

But it's "not going to tell us necessarily how above or below normal we're going to be," Quigley noted.

The week will also be dry, with no chances for rain until the weekend. And even those chances are pretty slim, Quigley said.

Wisconsin isn't experiencing any significant drought, though conditions are starting to be considered abnormally dry along the Wisconsin-Illinois border.

"The rains that we got in the spring and the first half of the summer are likely still keeping us in an okay area," he said.

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