Cloud cover and showers will probably hold back warming this Veterans Day in Chicago. However a steady south wind will strengthen Monday producing perhaps the first 60° temperatures of this month. Monday’s south winds will also bring much more moisture and fuel the continued redevelopment of rain-producing clouds. A cold front is forecast to move through Chicago Monday and then stall at night, giving another 24 hours of cloud cover and additional rains to the area. Rain should end as cooler and drier air feeds into the Midwest Wednesday.
The Sunday through Tuesday rainfall totals will most likely be significant, probably exceeding an inch in most areas of northeast Illinois, and could end up being Chicago’s highest storm-total rainfall since August. With NW winds both at the lower and upper levels of the atmosphere, temperatures will decline Thursday and Friday, moderating only slightly Saturday.
--By Paul Dailey, 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.
