Hot 90º weather is on hiatus as Chicagoans look ahead to a seasonably warm week with daily highs fluctuating within the 80s. Signs are subtle, but as daylight shortens, the atmosphere is slowly beginning to shift to a more fall-like pattern as meteorological summer winds down. Record heat was confined to Florida Saturday, while chilly morning lows established new records at Eugene, Ore. (43º), Hartford, Conn. (47º), Avoca, Penn. (48º) and Eureka, Cal. (47º).
Last week’s rains in the Chicago area targeted west and south sections while northern areas were left high and dry. Just the opposite was true 19 years ago when northwest portions were inundated by as much as 9.35” of rain in the Great O’Hare Flood of Aug. 13-14, 1987.
Rainfall chances this week appear limited to a Monday frontal passage and scattered activity late in the week as higher dew point air invades the region.
-Steve Kahn, WGN-TV Meteorologist
WGN-TV Chief Meteorologist Tom Skilling and the WGN Weather Center staff provide daily coverage of weather in the Chicago area.
