Chicagoans are treated to another day of comfortable temperatures and humidities Friday. The day’s strengthening NE winds off Lake Michigan—and of Canadian origin—limit highs in all but far west and south suburban areas to levels below the normal high of 84°.
For a second consecutive day Thursday, the afternoon high (79°) here failed to reach 80°. In a summer with temperature stats which have so consistently been on the high end of the spectrum, it’s little surprise this summer’s tally of just 11 days in the 70s (26 is the long-term average since 1871 by this date) is so rare. Only two of the past 135 years—1944 and 1949, with 10 and nine days of 70s respectively—have produced fewer “cool” daytime summer highs.
The chill was more evident in the upper Midwest early Thursday. There, morning lows dipped to 38° at Tower and 44° at Embarrass—both in Minnesota.
WGN-TV Chief Meteorologist Tom Skilling and the WGN Weather Center staff provide daily coverage of weather in the Chicago area.
