Justin Liles: Air quality slow to improve!

The entire Northland is now under and Air Quality Alert due to Canadian Wildfire smoke. Each state has different expiration times. Minnesota will expire around 3pm Saturday. Wisconsin will expire at 12pm Sunday and Michigan will expire at midnight tonight. Conditions will likely get worse this evening before it gets better overnight. People who may have breathing issues will certainly have troubles this afternoon and evening if spending too much time outside.

In the meantime, scattered showers and storms are possible in northern Wisconsin this afternoon. There isn’t sufficient energy to create severe thunderstorms but some isolated storms with smaller hail, gusty winds and lightning is possible. We will see this trend through the first half of Saturday, but chances are very small.

Another round of Thunderstorms is possible late Sunday into Monday. Temperatures will cool down over the weekend as the low responsible for our weather slides from Canada into Northern Minnesota. Winds will also become rather gusty.

TONIGHT
A chance of showers this evening with continued haze from wildfire smoke and with a low around 56. West wind 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 15 mph.
SATURDAY
A 20 percent chance of showers after noon. Mostly sunny, with a high near 73. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 15 mph.
SUNDAY
Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm, mainly after 11am. Mostly sunny, with a high near 70. Breezy, with a west wind 10 to 15 mph increasing to 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph.
MONDAY
Partly sunny, with a high near 71. Breezy, with a northwest wind around 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
TUESDAY
Mostly sunny, with a high near 74. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming southeast in the afternoon.
WEDNESDAY
A chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 75. Breezy, with an east wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
THURSDAY
A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly sunny, with a high near 72. Breezy, with a north wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
FRIDAY
Sunny, with a high near 78. Northwest wind around 10 mph, with gusts as high as 15 mph.