Chicago in store for a milder but wetter week

Temperatures will be on the rebound Sunday and early this week as the mercury returns to more seasonably levels after last week’s premature bout with snow and cold. The warm-up will come at a price however, as the city braces for another heavy rainfall event, potentially the city’s eight since Aug. 1. Rain totals could top 2 inches in some areas by Tuesday afternoon as waves of showers and thunderstorms roll through the area.
This same system, still developing in the Desert Southwest brought heavy rain and flooding to areas southeast of Las Vegas Saturday. All roads were washed out at Willow Beach, Arizona just south Hoover Dam stranding 39 people as boats and campers were washed into the Colorado River. Heavy rain also brought flooding to Bryce Canyon National Park in southern Utah where up to 1.60” of rain fell. Area rivers rose three feet in just four hours.
-Steve Kahn WGN-TV Meteorologist