Meteorological Spring, 2007—now into its 11th week with just 10 days to run—adds to its temperature surplus in coming days. It’s likely to go down in the books as a warm one, despite the brief but jarring temperature downturn Sunday. Monday’s high hit 80° making it the 10th reading at that level to date this year. Only two 80s had occurred by this date a year ago. Though lingering lake breezes restricted highs Monday to the 60s from Chicago’s lakefront north to Waukegan and Kenosha, a number of observation sites west and south of Chicago registered even warmer readings—among them 87° at Rockford, 86° at Aurora, Romeoville, Kankakee and Morris.
Temperatures surge well into the 80s Tuesday and Wednesday. That would make the current warm spell the area’s longest since early September. The twelve 80s expected to be on the books by Wednesday’s close are the most so early in a warm season in the 20 years since 1987!
--By Tom Skilling, WGN-TV Chief Meteorologist
WGN-TV Chief Meteorologist Tom Skilling and the WGN Weather Center staff provide daily coverage of weather in the Chicago area.
