11-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Mainly clear
7°
Feels like 7°
Wind↑ WSW 4 km/h
Humidity 50 %
Afternoon
Partly cloudy
10°
Feels like 10°
Wind↑ WSW 4 km/h
Humidity 44 %
12-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Partly cloudy
7°
Feels like 6°
Wind↑ WSW 5 km/h
Humidity 72 %
Afternoon
Mainly clear
12°
Feels like 12°
Wind↑ W 9 km/h
Humidity 50 %
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Clear sky
7°
Feels like 5°
Wind↑ W 10 km/h
Gusts20 km/h
Humidity 84 %
Afternoon
Clear sky
14°
Feels like 14°
Wind↑ W 13 km/h
Gusts20 km/h
Humidity 60 %
14-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Clear sky
8°
Feels like 7°
Wind↑ WSW 8 km/h
Gusts14 km/h
Humidity 90 %
Milwaukee forecast in charts · next 7 days
The week ahead: highs and lows
▲ This week runs +7.9° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
Hourly detail
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)
Milwaukee climate: what a normal year looks like
The hottest stretch is July, when afternoons average 27 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −8 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 28 °C.
Nights typically freeze from December to March, the coldest averaging −8 °C in January.
From 15 h 22 min of daylight in late June to 9 h 00 min in late December.
There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 52 mm and 107 mm on average.
Forecast highs for the coming week average 17 °C, 2 °C warmer than a normal October (15 °C).
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Jan
−2 °C
−9 °C
57 mm
Feb
−1 °C
−7 °C
52 mm
Mar
4 °C
−3 °C
64 mm
Apr
11 °C
3 °C
107 mm
May
16 °C
9 °C
97 mm
Jun
23 °C
16 °C
92 mm
Jul
27 °C
19 °C
85 mm
Aug
25 °C
19 °C
95 mm
Sep
22 °C
15 °C
79 mm
Oct
15 °C
8 °C
82 mm
Nov
7 °C
2 °C
65 mm
Dec
1 °C
−5 °C
61 mm
Whole year
12 °C
6 °C
940 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 43.04° N, 87.91° W, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.
Air you breathe in Milwaukee: pollution and pollen
2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.514µg/m³
PM1014µg/m³
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Milwaukee
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Milwaukee, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.
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Rain radarLast two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline
Moon over Milwaukee
Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 18:01 Set 09:48
Fri30/1079%
Sat31/1069%
Sun1/1159%
Mon2/1149%Last quarter
Tue3/1138%
Wed4/1128%
Thu5/1119%
Fri6/1112%
Sat7/116%
Sun8/112%
Mon9/110%
Tue10/111%New moon
Moonrise and moonset in local time (America/Chicago); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.
Look up a past day in Milwaukee
Curious about the weather in Milwaukee on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Milwaukee weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Milwaukee, Wisconsin: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “drizzle”, it is 15 °C (feels like 15 °C) and the wind blows at 16 km/h.
Expected range today: 15 °C to 18 °C and around 1 mm of rain. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.
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