After seemingly endless weeks of clouds, cold and snow, spring weather will finally arrive in Chicago early this week, though albeit, its stay will be short-lived. The mercury will rise in leaps and bounds with highs increasing around 10 degrees each day after today’s 50º high reaching the balmy 70º mark by Tuesday. Spring warmth should continue Wednesday with readings in the the middle and upper 60s, but a round of active thunderstorms will signal the death knell for the brief warm spell as a return to northeast winds sends temperature tumbling even faster than they rose, falling back into the lower 40s by Friday with the possibility of wet snow mixing in with a cold rain.
This week’s brief flirtation with spring warmth may come with a severe weather price tag, a weather feature that has been totally absent from the Chicago meteorological scene so far this chilly month.
WGN-TV Chief Meteorologist Tom Skilling and the WGN Weather Center staff provide daily coverage of weather in the Chicago area.
