Rain—more than a half an inch of it—is to drench Chicago at times Saturday. Except for possible flurries Saturday night as colder air blows into the area, accumulating snows have shifted well north and west of the city. The 4.1” earlier this week has pushed the area’s seasonal tally to a level (4.1”) which hadn’t been reached here until Jan. 4 last cold season. It’s a total above the amount on the books by Nov. 27 in 96 of the past 120 years.
Nine states are under winter weather advisories this weekend, the closest of them: northern Wisconsin and Minnesota as well as Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
In a holiday weekend which got off to a nightmarish start in Chicago area as a result of Wednesday’s snowstorm, there’s good weather news for homebound travelers planning to leave Sunday. Quiet weather is expected across much of the Midwest. The one region of the country with troubled weather will be the West, where a gathering storm threatens big mountain snows.
WGN-TV Chief Meteorologist Tom Skilling and the WGN Weather Center staff provide daily coverage of weather in the Chicago area.
