Cool pattern until mid-week. Get Bill Steffen's weekday forecast

Here’s high temperatures for this Monday … the average high for April 6 is 54 and we’ll be around 10 degrees cooler than today and tomorrow. We have about a 50/50 chance of a period of light to very light rain or snow today, but roads will stay mostly clear.

Here’s high temperatures for Tuesday. Look for partly to mostly sunny skies with highs in the low 40s. Cooler to the north, just 32 at Gaylord and 29 at Sault Ste. Marie. It’ll be a cool home opener for the Whitecaps in the evening. After a chilly start to Wednesday (below freezing), we’ll be back in the mid- to upper 50s Wednesday afternoon.

Here’s the total snowfall for the next three days. Look for another 1-3 inches in parts of Upper Michigan and an inch in northeast Lower Michigan.

The heaviest rain in the U.S. over the next three days may be over the Florida Peninsula with some 1-2-inch totals. Anything in West Michigan today would be very light. There’s a better chance of some more significant rain on Thursday. Very little severe weather is expected in the U.S. over the next three days.

The average high temperature for today is 54. It’ll be breezy today with a northwest wind at 15-20 mph this afternoon. Sunrise is now at 7:15 a.m. and sunset at 8:14 p.m. This is the time of year when you are looking into a bright sun when driving east in the early morning and looking west in the evening. The days continue to lengthen at the rate of over 2.5 minutes per day.

The water temperature of Reeds Lake is a chilly 44 degrees, and at the Holland Channel, the water temperature is 46 degrees. Several rivers are bankfull this Monday morning. We’re tracking the rain that’s coming our way later this week, from Thursday to Saturday.

5-day forecast

• Monday: Becoming windier and chilly with some sun, with a high of 44 degrees and a low of 33 degrees. Expect a couple of rain or snow showers this afternoon. Monday night will likely bring a couple of snow showers.
• Tuesday: Mostly sunny with a high of 41 degrees. Expect cloudy skies in the evening with a low of 22 degrees.
• Wednesday: Partly sunny with a high of 58 degrees. Rain will come in the evening, with a low of 27 degrees. Winds are expected to increase to up to 40 mph wind gusts.
• Thursday: Mostly cloudy and windy with a couple of showers, with a high of 63 degrees. Showers will continue, with a low of 50 degrees.
• Friday: Mostly cloudy, with a high of 59 degrees. The evening will be partly cloudy, with a low of 43 degrees.

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