Northeast winds sent temps here tumbling as they took hold around 3 p.m. Monday. They’ll continue to blow off Lake Michigan Tuesday for a 15th day this month. It’s a stat which means the city has been cooled by lake winds 60% of the time in May, 2005. Little wonder so many become frustrated by the slow pace at which warming takes place here each warm season. The flow returns May to its cool ways, limiting shoreline highs to the 50s—though readings warm to 67° at some inland locations Tuesday.
The cool temps here contrast with the record-breaking triple-digit heat, which has blazed for a week to Chicago’s west—and with March-level 40s predicted in New England Tuesday amid the powerful 40+ m.p.h. coastal winds of an unusual late season Nor’easter. Gusts at Nantucket and on Martha’s Vineyard are to reach 50-60 m.p.h. at times later Tuesday.
-Tom Skilling
WGN-TV Chief Meteorologist Tom Skilling and the WGN Weather Center staff provide daily coverage of weather in the Chicago area.
