Chicago’s moisture deficits will continue to grow in the upcoming week as summer’s heat begins to reestablish itself across the Midwest. With the year’s strongest sun baking the already parched soils, temperatures should once again break the 90º hot weather benchmark on Tuesday and except for a brief lake influenced downturn Wednesday, are forecast to reach the 90s away from the lakeshore on a daily basis for the rest of the week. It looks like a hot start for the city’s 25th annual Taste of Chicago with high temperatures expected to soar into the lower and middle 90s—even at the lakefront—by Friday.
Precipitation in Chicago has been below normal throughout this growing season and with minimal rain prospects in the week ahead, coupled with the year’s highest soil moisture evaporation rates, area lawns, gardens, trees and shrubs will become progressively stressed without supplemental watering.
WGN-TV Chief Meteorologist Tom Skilling and the WGN Weather Center staff provide daily coverage of weather in the Chicago area.
