Horizontal expanses of stratocumulus and stratus clouds, often gray and dreary and carrying the threat of drizzle and very light rain, will greet the eyes of Chicagoans who care to look above them today and Wednesday.
National attention, meanwhile, focuses on heavy, wet, slushy snow blanketing central Colorado and Denver, and on the deluges of rain swamping the mid-Atlantic and New England states. Those events make Chicago’s tranquil, albeit dreary, weather easy to take.
High pressure sprawling across the North Atlantic Ocean between North America and Europe has been blocking the normal west-to-east progression of the U.S. weather, and computer models indicate little change in the blocking pattern through Wednesday.
Colorado’s snow will taper off as that storm system weakens, but the soggy East can expect additional bouts of rain.
WGN-TV Chief Meteorologist Tom Skilling and the WGN Weather Center staff provide daily coverage of weather in the Chicago area.
