The city can expect two more rain-free days to clean up and dry out before the next round of precipitation threatens here Tuesday night and Wednesday. With only light to moderate rainfall expected, this August should end as Chicago's fourth wettest since records began in 1871. Not so at South Bend, Ind., where the month's 8.88" is the most in any August, while Rockford's 13.82" total elevates this August to the all-time wettest of any month there.
With clear skies expected Monday night, early rising Chicagoans with a view to the west will be able to see the first half of a total lunar eclipse. The full moon will gradually disappear as it moves into the Earth's shadow with the eclipse reaching totality at 4:52 a.m. Unfortunately, Chicagoans will miss the moon's emergence from totality, which according to Dan Joyce, astronomer at Triton College's Cernan Earth and Space Center, will not be visible here, a result of moonset and the onset of twilight.
--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.
