The National Weather Service has issued a High Wind Advisory for today with strong westerly winds expected to gust as high as 45 m.p.h. A potent cold front will move through Chicago this morning followed by steadily declining readings this afternoon -- perhaps reaching the upper 30s by evening. Chicagoans will experience the coldest day of the fast-vanishing fall season Tuesday with highs failing to warm out of the 30s, and northwest winds possibly dropping wind chills into the teens tomorrow morning.
Colder yet to the north, howling north winds off Lake Superior are expected to develop heavy lake-enhanced snow over the Upper Michigan Peninsula dumping as much as a foot over higher inland locations later tonight and Tuesday.
The effects of this cold front will be felt all the way to the Gulf of Mexico with daytime highs dropping some 20 to 25 degrees from Monday to Tuesday over a wide area from Texas to the Carolinas.
--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.
