Tracking rain, temp drop this weekend in Metro Detroit: What to expect

Rain chances ramp up Friday evening

4Warn Weather – We’re drying out early today with clearing skies. Temperatures start about 5-10 degrees cooler this morning compared to Thursday morning.

We welcome back some sunshine today.

Highs will fall into the seasonable upper 60s this afternoon. Conditions will be with mainly dry until after sunset.

Tonight’s sunset is at 7:07 p.m.

Kickoff should be dry for high school football, but grab a poncho anyway, as scattered rain chances return late this evening. Rain could affect the games before they end.

Temps drop this weekend

Putting the “brrrr” in October this weekend!

Much colder air will settle in, and winds will pick up. Whether you are outside for your child’s soccer or football game on Saturday or walking at the Race for the Cure or Eleanor’s March 4 Hope on Sunday, it is going to be blustery and noticeably colder than last weekend, so layer up!

Winds will gust upward of 25 mph this weekend, so that means that the wind chills could be about 10 degrees cooler than the air temperatures. In short, we will feel like the temperatures are in the 40s both Saturday and Sunday afternoon. Temps will feel like they’re on either side of 30 degrees when you wake up Sunday morning, making it a chilly tailgate outside of Ford Field on Sunday.

Spotty showers will be on-and-off on Saturday. An isolated shower is possible Sunday.

Highs will be in the 50s for most of next week.

Elsewhere ...

Nationally, heavy rain and flooding are expected in parts of the Northeast this weekend. Widespread freeze watches are in effect across much of the northern and central Plains through Saturday morning. However, warmer than average temperatures are expected along the coast of California.

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Ashlee Baracy is an Emmy award-winning meteorologist who was born and raised in Metro Detroit. You can catch her 4Warn Weather forecasts weekday mornings, at noon and streaming on Local4+.

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