It's been a wild opening week for Chicago's meteorological winter 2007-08.
It started with last weekend's icy glaze, followed by the midweek snowstorm and the city's earliest 0-degree reading since the 1970s. And now, the city is facing two more winter storms that threaten a return of adverse weather, first this weekend and then again by the middle of next week.
Latest computer forecast trends hint at an icy mix for most of the city this weekend with more snow to the north and glaze to the south.
Following a brief respite Monday and early Tuesday, the second storm is expected to roll in, once again bringing a threat of rain and/or snow to the city. Very cold air currently building across the northern Plains and southern Canada is forecast to plunge south into the Midwest in the wake of this storm, bringing another round of early season cold by the end of the week.
--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.
