Chicago weather: A mild St. Patrick's Day before another chance of storms

CHICAGO - It will be another wild week around these parts with temperature swings, possible thunderstorms, and drum roll please: another chance for snow.

Fox 32 Meteorologist Mike Caplan has the forecast.

Sunshine and mild temps

What to expect:

Today looks good. 

Kiss the snow goodbye with plenty of sunshine and highs in the low to mid-50s. 

Winds may gust to 25 mph or so. 

Tonight will be quiet with moonlit skies and lows in the upper 30s to low 40s. 

What's next:

Tomorrow will be much warmer with quite a bit of high thin cloud cover. 

Highs will climb into the lower 70s. 

Circle Wednesday as "the day" when weather takes center stage. It will be very windy with a chance for thunderstorms during the day. 

Another powerful spring storm system will assemble to our west and bring with it a variety of threats for parts of the country including Chicagoland.  

Strong winds are likely with the possibility of another wind advisory being needed. This will have nothing to do with thunderstorms. However, boomers are likely from midday into the evening and some could be severe with all thunderstorm hazards in play.  

Timing will be refined later. For now, the Storm Prediction Center has our viewing area in a level 1 out of 5 "marginal risk" category.  

After any thunderstorms exit stage right, cold air will wrap into our area with snow the likely overnight consequence.  

While states to our north and west seem to have the "worse" position for snowfall, it is once again possible that sticking snow could impact mainly our northern and western counties into early Thursday morning.