A cold front will move across Michigan this afternoon and early evening. This cold front will bring three significant weather events.

The cold front causes a series of thunderstorms and a lot of wind. Temperatures will drop behind the cold front, but not to temperature levels we would call cold.

In fact, it’s going to be a very warm trick-or-treating period for pretty much all of Lower Michigan. Here is the temperature forecast at 6pm. Note: Southeastern Lower Michigan will still be in the 70s. Even behind the cold front, temperatures over far western Lower Michigan will only dip into the 50s, which is still fairly warm for this time of year.

Yesterday I wrote about the chance of a quick severe thunderstorm. Although severe storms don’t seem likely now, a quick line of thunderstorms will still fall through the second half of the afternoon. The line of thunderstorms would be so narrow that you could wait out the downpour for 15 minutes to half an hour and then go back to trick-or-treating.

Here is the radar forecast from 12pm to 8pm to give you an idea of ​​the quick rain showers. Some heavy showers were possible in the Detroit area late in the evening.

With today’s spotty rain showers, you can watch the radar and spend an hour or two dry trick-or-treating, except in the Upper Peninsula. Snow starts to fall there in the evening.

The wind will be quite strong throughout the afternoon and evening. As a result, a wind advisory is in effect for part of west-central Lower Michigan, east into the Saginaw Valley and the Thumb.

The gust forecast shows that almost everyone in Lower Michigan will have at least 30 mph gusts and widespread areas of 60 mph gusts by 6 p.m.

There have been many Halloweens here in Michigan when the first snowflakes fell. This will not be the case for Lower Michigan today. It will actually look more like spring than late fall.