For the most part showers bypassed the Chicago area Saturday, but are expected to return on Sunday and Monday as an upper air disturbance drifts across the Midwest. Showers and thunderstorms are again forecast later in the week heralding both the arrival and the departure of a blast of hot and humid air that should send temperatures surging into the lower 90s here on Thursday.
Rain did not bypass Florida Saturday as Tropical Storm Barry moved onshore in the Tampa Bay area. The infant hurricane season’s second named storm, now downgraded to a tropical depression, brought wind gusts to 55 m.p.h. to the Clearwater Beach area Saturday, while bringing welcome heavy rainfall. Since Friday more than 6” of rain fell at nearby Largo while Dunedin measured 4.63”. In less than 24 hours, the soaking rains cut the area’s substantial year-to-date rainfall deficits in half.
-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.
