Just how cold will Milwaukee be on Friday?
The temperatures will be so frigid that even indoor sporting events are being rescheduled.
Marquette men’s tennis has rescheduled their home match against Xavier. Initially planned for Saturday Jan. 24 at 11 a.m., it is moving to Friday, March 6, with first serve to be announced at a later time.
Marquette athletic communication assistant Asia Horton said in an email to the Marquette Wire that a Xavier administrator did not want the team to travel given the freezing conditions.
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Temperatures on Friday are expected to reach minus 10 to minus 15 degrees, with wind chills as low as minus 38 across Milwaukee County.
“Once you get down to 30 below zero wind chill and colder, it would only take 10 minutes [to get frostbite],” Milwaukee-Sullivan National Weather Service meteorologist Mark Gehring said.
Just after 5 p.m. CST Thursday, Marquette announced it canceled all Friday classes. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and other Milwaukee-area schools also all called off school.
Marquette’s last cold weather cancelation happened just over a year ago, on Jan. 21, 2025, which was the last time Milwaukee had minus 30-degree wind chills, according to Gehring.
Marquette is still scheduled to host the University of Illinois-Chicago on Sunday Jan. 25, with first serve slated for 5 p.m. CST. The rescheduled Mar. 6 Xavier match will still serve as the Golden Eagles’ Big East debut.
Editor’s note: This story was originally published with a headline saying the match was originally scheduled for Friday. It has since been updated to show the correct date of Saturday.
This story was updated with new information.
This article was written by Mikey Severson. He can be reached at michael.severson@marquette.edu or on Twitter/X @MikeySeversonMU.