Metro Detroit Weather: Mild first spring weekend

It will be dry this evening. Overnight some rain showers should move in. There will be more north of Detroit than south. They move out early Friday and spring starts quite mild with highs near 60°

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Some showers should move in from the northwest overnight. There are better rain chances than snow chances and there are better overall precip chances north of Detroit than around the city and south. The showers should be done by around 8 AM tomorrow. A milder but mostly cloudy Friday will have temps steadily warming through the morning. We'll eventually reach the upper 50s by the afternoon and some areas, including Detroit, should hit 60° for the first day of spring.

A fairly quiet stretch of weather is ahead with some ups and downs in temperatures. Saturday looks partly cloudy and mild with highs pulled back a bit from Friday's highs. Behind a cold front temps will reach into the low 50s. Sunday turns warmer, nearing 60 degrees again. Cooler air moves back in Monday with highs dropping into the low 40s, followed by a gradual rebound into the upper 40s Tuesday and Wednesday under partly cloudy skies.

This Evening: Partly to mostly cloudy skies early, then some clearing before the clouds increase late. Temps in the 40s. Winds: Variable at 5 mph.

Tonight: Slight chance of rain well after midnight. Mostly cloudy skies with winds SSE 5 mph. Lows will be in the mid 30s.

Friday: An early rain shower is possible, mostly before 8 AM. A milder day for with highs near 60 under mostly cloudy skies. Winds: W 10-15 mph.

Saturday: Partly sunny with highs in the low 50s. Winds: S 5 mph.

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