Rain prospects for Chicago appear slim this week, with the best precipitation chances expected later in the week when a weak frontal system approaches the area. Before then, a delightful Labor Day weekend is in store for the city with plentiful sunshine and warm weather providing ideal conditions for the last round of summer picnics and barbecues. Any precipitation should be scattered and light and the region’s summer-long drought should continue with mounting precipitation deficits.
Hurricane specialists are scrutinizing a series of weather disturbances moving west off of Africa, looking for any signs of development of the season’s next tropical cyclone. The current storm Maria should become the season’s fifth hurricane today, but moving northwest from its mid Atlantic location 750 miles east-southeast of Bermuda poses no threat to land at this time.
WGN-TV Chief Meteorologist Tom Skilling and the WGN Weather Center staff provide daily coverage of weather in the Chicago area.
