It’s been more than a month since Chicago has experienced winter’s cold and snow, but they will finally return in the wake of this weekend’s storm that brought a wintry mix of precipitation to Chicago and the Midwest. While flooding rains soaked the southern Midwest, an icy combination of rain and freezing rain, sleet and snow glazed areas from Missouri to southern Wisconsin with the ice headed for Michigan on Monday. Though icy rain was still falling in Chicago Sunday evening, a change over to snow was expected to occur overnight, bringing the city its first snow cover since Dec. 12. The slower-than-expected shift to snow was likely to reduce snow accumulations in the city and areas south, but locations close to the Wisconsin border could still receive 4 or more inches of snow.
An arctic blast that kept highs below 0° in portions of the Dakotas on Sunday will reach Chicago early this week, bringing possibly the first subzero lows to Chicago since last Feb. 18.
--By Steve Kahn, 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.
