Low, gray stratus clouds and foggy, damp, hazy air sometimes flecked with drizzle or spits of light rain—those are the dreary conditions that face us today and Thursday.
It’s weather that stands in sharp contrast to the bright, sunny and hot days of the drought summer just ended, but it is the kind of weather that makes increasingly frequent (and lengthy) appearances here as autumn progresses into winter.
Locally, the current bout of dreary weather will be relatively short lived, and at least a little sunshine should return on Friday. Chicago’s weather history tells us, however, that many more cloudy days lie ahead because, on average, November and December are the city’s cloudiest months.
It is an unfortunate coincidence that the cloudiest time of the year occurs approximately simultaneously with the time of fewest hours of daylight.
WGN-TV Chief Meteorologist Tom Skilling and the WGN Weather Center staff provide daily coverage of weather in the Chicago area.
