For the past three days (beginning this past Monday), there hasn’t been a cloud in the sky above Chicago. The city has received 100% of its possible sunshine. That’s not a common occurrence. The last time three back-to-back 100% sunny days occurred here was April 12, 13 and 14, 2005. While spectacular weather is predicted again Thursday, the arrival of some high and mid-level clouds from the northeast this afternoon is likely to deny us a fourth day completely free of clouds. (Note: Should Thursday’s clouds fail to materialize, Chicago’s streak of 100% cloud-free days would extend to four days— the most here in two decades of Junes).
The month’s temperatures have responded to all the sun. June’s opening 13 days have averaged 68.9°—warm enough to rank 34th warmest since 1871. But high evaporation rates are drying area soils which will make any rainfall which arrives next Monday welcome.
--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.
