Good Tuesday, folks. Our gorgeous stretch of fall weather has a few more days left in the tank before things turn active once again. The closing week and change of October will feature several potent systems impacting the weather around here.

Let’s start things out with what’s going on out there today. Temps range from the upper 30s to middle 40s across the state with another kiss of frost in the coldest valleys. By the afternoon, temps range from the upper 60s to middle 70s.

Wednesday finds our numbers a degree or two better than today as clouds start to increase. Those clouds stream in ahead of our Thursday cold front that’s being pushed by a strong upper level system dropping into the Great Lakes. As this continues to spin into the start of the weekend, a few more showers will likely zip through here…

That will be followed up by some more rain moving in here by Saturday night into Sunday as milder air presses in from the southwest…

The speed of this system likely wipes out the frost potential for the weekend.

This sets the stage for a couple of warm and windy days ahead of a big system rolling in from the west. Check out this clash of the seasons…

That kind of setup is what I’ve been talking about over the past few days and may very well produce some strong storms around here. The GFS has one heck of a major fall storm system…

The Canadian is on a similar path in showing a deep trough coming east…

That’s a pattern taking on much more of a blocky look as we end October and this may bode well for winter weather lovers as we head into November.

Make it a terrific Tuesday and take care.