What a change! The area is finally in the grip of cool autumn air. Still cooler temperatures are due this weekend—potentially the chilliest in more than five months. Sox fans face weather Saturday and Sunday more typical of the fall football season than of many World Series. By Sunday, daytime highs may fail to reach 50° for the first time since May 2 of this past spring.
Thursday’s thickening overcast and strengthening northeast winds are to carry rain into the area, part of a storm which buried Colorado mountaintops under as much as 8” of snow Wednesday while bombarding
Dodge City, Kansas with 2” diameter hail in powerful thunderstorms. A tornado touched down at 4:36 pm in Meade County, Kansas in the incoming system’s warm sector.
Wet weather reaches Chicago Thursday. Totals will be heaviest to the south, but up to 0.50” is predicted in the city proper.
-TOM SKILLING
WGN-TV Chief Meteorologist Tom Skilling and the WGN Weather Center staff provide daily coverage of weather in the Chicago area.
