An enduring characteristic of Chicago’s vigorous temperature climate is its tendency to reach for the extremes, and that’s what lies immediately ahead. It will be a pleasurable experience this time around, because unseasonable daytime warmth is anticipated.
Strengthening southwesterly winds, surface and aloft, will dominate Chicago’s weather through most of the upcoming week. Today’s high temperature in the lower 70s is likely to be the coolest day by far of the next six. Expected high temperatures averaged over the week beginning today (Sept. 28-Oct. 4) is 79º, almost 11º above normal, and a temperature level that ranks among the five warmest such periods in 136 years of Chicago temperature history.
Those expected daily temps won’t challenge daily record highs—those are in the 90s—but the persistent warmth will take the week’s average high temperature into near-record territory.
--By Richard Koeneman, 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.
