Daily high temperatures will hold in the 80s and vary less than 10 degrees if forecasts pan out the next seven days. Overall readings look to average nearly 2 degrees above normal.
A cold front that moved slowly through the metro area Sunday gave mostly light showers on the order of a tenth to two-tenths of an inch of rainfall. Remnant cloud cover from that cold front will drift out of the area later tonight, leaving northern Illinois under the influence of high pressure Tuesday and Wednesday.
Computer models agree that a complex low pressure system will then move east out of the northern and central Plains, spreading clouds over northeast Illinois and providing several periods of showers and thunderstorms Thursday and Friday that could add up to over an inch of rain before precipitation ends early Saturday.
Next weekend may find Chicago under weak high pressure with significant low pressure systems to the east and west.
--By Paul Dailey, WGN Weather Center Meteorologist
WGN-TV Chief Meteorologist Tom Skilling and the WGN Weather Center staff provide daily coverage of weather in the Chicago area.
