Heat and dearth of rain to continue

Light east winds may provide some relief from the heat along the Lake Michigan shoreline Sunday, while inland another hot humid day is expected. If readings reach 90° at Midway and O’Hare today, it will mark four straight days with 90° or higher at both sites and raise the total number of 90° days this June to five at O’Hare and ten at Midway. With a southerly flow forecast to continue into mid-week, June 2005 may well end on a string of eight consecutive 90° days—an event that has never occurred at either Midway or O’Hare. Midway holds the end-of-June record set back in 1931 when each of the last 7 days of June that year hit 90°.
Hot and humid conditions will continue the next few days, but any showers will be few and far between. Even the passage of a cold front Thursday may trigger another opportunity for rain, but the nature of showers/thunderstorms being mostly brief and “hit or miss” will have a negligible effect on the strengthening drought.