WGN Weather Team
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Sprawling high pressure locked in place by light winds aloft keeping Chicago rain free, warm and hazy until this weekend; east winds off Lake Michigan to temper shoreline warmth; Houston & south Texas threatened by tropical downpours
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Closing days of summer to bring warmer temps
The Chicago area is expected to stay rain-free through Friday as temperatures undergo a gradual day-to-day increase. Highs are forecast to average more than 8 degrees above normal. This comes as good news, especially across northern portions of the metro area where the Fox and Des Plaines rivers remain in flood following last weekend’s downpours. The main stem of the Des Plaines is forecast to drop below flood stage Thursday night, while the Fox, at McHenry and Algonquin, has yet […]
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City’s warm weather has staying power through end of month
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Chicago’s driest Septembers–the hurricane connection
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Drier air yields to muggy air’s t-storm-provoking t-storms Sat night/Sunday; warmth holds in the coming week; Friday’s thundery predawn downpours include 4” totals northern counties; tropical storm watches out on Florida’s east cost
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Warm and dry weekend to follow recent deluges
The Chicago area will be treated to a warm, sunny and generally dry early-fall weekend, allowing waterlogged north portions of the metro area a chance to dry out. Repeat thundery deluges swamped north portions of the Chicago area both Wednesday and Thursday nights with many locations receiving upwards of six inches of rain, flooding basements and viaducts, closing roads and sending area rivers into flood. Heaviest Thursday night rainfall totals were recorded in locations from Wisconsin state line south to […]
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Heavy t-storms swamp Illinois/Wis. line Wednesday evening; seasonable temps headed this way but summer isn’t over yet
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Late season warm, humid tropical air brings Chicago’s longest multi-day 80-degree streak in a month; an 89-degree high Tuesday would be the city’s warmest in over a month; moist air introduces a day to day chance of scat t-storms
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Heat returns—hottest day in over a month
As a warm front surges north of our area, gusty SW winds will direct much warmer and more humid air into our area Tuesday. Afternoon highs will reach well into the 80s, probably touching on 90 degrees in a few areas—the warmest experienced here in a little over a month. The last official 90 degree reading we have registered occurred August 5. A frontal boundary will sag back south into southern Wisconsin the next couple days keeping Chicago in the […]
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Unusual September warmth follows cloudy, cool, damp Sunday
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