Some showers or t-storms possible at night. Sunshine but with increasing clouds taking over. Clusters of showers and t-storms from time to time. Low Sunday night 67.Ī good deal of cloudiness, humid. SUNDAY NIGHT: A good deal of cloudiness, humid. Highs 82 to 87-but with cooler outflows possible in and near t-storms. New showers and t-storms develop late morning and or in the afternoon. Lightning and some downpours in some heavier storms. SATURDAY NIGHT: A wave of showers and t-storms develop-most likely in the 8 or 9 pm and 3 to 5 am time frame Saturday night. High 94 inland but upper 70s to mid 80s on area beaches. Though Saturday morning is expected to remain dry, a system moving in from eastern Iowa is predicted to bring scattered snow showers to the Chicago area around 2 p.m., with the city's western. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune) As brutally cold temperatures settled. Clouds increase toward and during the evening. 1 of 43 A pedestrian crosses Randolph Street near Millennium Park as steam rises in the arctic cold on Dec. The implication is next week’s active pattern is likely to spill over into the following week.Generous sunshine, hazy and turning hot inland. Colder air is likely to lock in that system’s wake maintaining the same sort of active jet stream across the region. The potential appears to be there for a wintry mix as it looks now-but critical details on the system’s structure remain to be worked out in the 4-5 days before it arrives. Just what form the precip takes when it arrive Wednesday will be interesting to monitor. The huge north/south temp spread sets up a powerful jet stream which sweeps from west to east across the country and gives rise to the development of a huge late winter storm season in the Wed/Thu time frame.Ĭhicago sits straddles the boundary between warm and cold air and is likely to get in on the storm’s expansive precipitation shield and its likely strong wind field from the ENE which will start to come into play here Tuesday night. At the same time, WARM TEMPS are to occur across the South. It’s one in which frigid arctic air takes up residence the length of the Lower 48 along and south of the Canadian border. I’ve mentioned the pattern taking shape by the middle and end of next continuing into the week which follows. LONGER RANGE: Temps cool modestly Monday and Tuesday next week though both day’s average temps are to still come in more than 5-deg above normal. The Saturday/Sunday high temps are to come in 7 to 15-deg above normal-with highs more typical of mid and late March than mid February. Sunday looks even milder with a high topping 50-deg a good bet. Sunday, OHare had over 500 cancellations, and Midway had 60. Saturday will see a 15 to 20-deg increase over today as gusty SW winds import milder Pacific air amid a good deal of sunshine. Leave some distance between the guy in front of you.' Flights were also disrupted. The good news heading into the coming weekend is TEMPS ARE TO BOUNCE BACK to the month’s dominant ABOVE NORMAL WAYS. Chicagoans shivered through the first BELOW NORMAL DAY in 2 weeks and the 2 nd COLDEST DAY OF FEBRUARY with this day’s high of 26 (normal high for Feb 17 is 36-10-deg warmer).Ĭold like this hits hard in a month which has posted a 5-deg surplus and in which 13 of the past 17 days have come in ABOVE NORMAL and a year to date which, despite a few sharp cold blasts have seen nearly 80% of days come in MILDER THAN NORMAL.
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