Chicago Weather

Snow Tonight Before Weekend Warmup

... National Weather Service. There is a chance for rain on Sunday night. On Monday, the warmth will continue. High temps are expected to reach into the 60 s for the Chicago area. There will be a chance for some thunderstorms late Monday night as a cold front once again moves into the area. Here is a look at a more detailed forecast for the coming days. FRIDAY: Mostly sunny until late afternoon then becoming partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 30 s. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph. FRIDAY NIGHT: Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of light snow in the evening, then light snow likely after midnight. Snow accumulation up to 1 inch. Temperatures nearly steady in the upper 20 s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 60 percent. SATURDAY: Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of light snow and light rain in the morning. Highs in the mid 40 s. Southeast winds 10 to 20 mph. SATURDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30 ...

February Continues To Melt Chicago's Weather Record Book

... dog didn't need his winter sweater. "It's a nice day. (Prince) is alert. He's enjoying it," said Phillips, an electrician who lives in the Loop. "I'm impressed. I think it's amazing. Just having been here all these years, you don't get weather like this in February. So I've been excited about it for pretty much all week.". (Katherine Rosenberg-Douglas). So far this February, the first 19 days of the month on average have been warmer than the first 19 days of last March. Typically, temperatures hover around the mid-30 s this time of year, Friedlein said. The unusually warm weather has been due, in part, to the lack of snow this season combined with warm air masses from the southwest U. S., he said. "Snow cover acts like a freezer," Friedlein said. "And there hasn't really been much since prior to Christmas.". Forecasts made Sunday for upcoming days showed that daily temperature records could stay intact. But the city will have a chance Monday to tie a record for the most consecutive days in February with temperatures above 60 degrees — four. The ...

Chicago Breaks Surprising 146-year-old Weather Record

... about to do something its never done in 146 years of record keeping: go the entire months of Jan & Feb with no snow on the ground. — NWS Chicago (@NWSChicago) February 28, 2017. Rockford, Illinois also set a record for a snowless January and February, which has never happened there since weather records began in 1905, the Weather Service said. With the last official day of Winter today, folks in the Eastern US have escaped another cold Winter season. Now it's time to welcome Spring __link__/veu 4 Lr GQF 3. — Michael Ventrice (@MJVentrice) February 28, 2017. Chicago was far from alone in its freak warmth during what is normally one of the coldest and snowiest winter months. Thousands of warm temperature records were set or tied during February across the eastern two-thirds of the country, with many locations having their warmest February on record. In Burlington, Vermont, the ...

Accumulating Snow Possible For Chicago Area

... By Amie Rowland (Patch Staff) - March 10, 2017 2:24 pm ET. The weekend will start out windy and cold and wrap up Sunday night with accumulating snow that could continue into Monday and possibly even Tuesday for portions of the Chicago area. Meanwhile, temperatures more typical of late January or early February will remain in place for much of the coming week, according to the National Weather Service. On Friday, wind gusts reaching as high as 30 mph added to the chill in the air. High temps were expected to reach between 26 and 35 degrees for the Chicago area with wind chills only in the teens to low 20 s. Get local weather alerts and news alerts from Patch; sign up for a newsletter. The windy conditions coupled with very dry air and minimum relative humidity of 25 to 30 percent could create for a greater weather risk and greater chance that a fire could spread. “In spite of the very cold airmass, these conditions will create near red flag conditions today,” according to a hazardous ...

High Wind Warning Expires; Falling Glass, Downed Power Lines Reported

... and the Skydeck at Willis Tower was closed as a precaution. The warning was allowed to expire at 5 p.m. for Cook, Du Page, Kane, Will and Lake counties in Illinois and Porter County in Indiana, according to the National Weather Service. No other wind alerts are in effect. Sustained winds of 30 to 40 mph were reported throughout the area, with gusts of up to 60 mph, the weather service said. The high winds caused debris to fall from downtown buildings, including a high-rise at 25 W. Randolph St., according to Chicago Fire Department Cmdr. Juan Hernandez. No one was injured. “They cordoned off the area. We are standing by," Hernandez said. Dearborn Street was closed at Washington Street. Randolph Street was later closed between State and Dearborn for coping falling off a building on that side of the same block, according to the city Office of Emergency Management and Communications. Separately, there was a report of at least one car damaged by a falling tree in the North Park neighborhood. The winds forced temporary closure of the Skydeck on the 103 rd floor of the ...

If You Don't Like Chicago's Spring Weather

... that I could have hit one with a dead puffin. The day was sunny and cold, until a snow squall unexpectedly slammed the car. The windshield gathered a thin layer of ice. My hands grew sweaty. I'm not a calm driver in most forms of precipitation; I pulled the car into a gas station and asked the teenager behind the cash register if he knew how long this weather would last. "We have a saying in Iceland," he said, "if you don't like the weather, wait a minute.". RELATED: TRENDING LIFE & STYLE NEWS THIS HOUR. He smiled, as if he had slipped me some secret bit of local mythology. I nodded: If I had a dead puffin for every time I've heard some variation on waiting a minute and the weather will change, I would have a decent collection of dead puffins. And yet: I took his advice. I waited five minutes. The snow tapered, the sun returned. The day grew warm. Then a few hours later, cold, then sunny, then it flurried. Perhaps he was right. Perhaps weather there is nuts. Or maybe every freaking culture says this. Spring, as another saying goes, sucks. Temperature fluctuation in Chicago is wackiest in spring. Spring is muddy then icy then hot then cool right ...