Great weather expected for both Election Day and Obama Election Night Rally

Mildest Chicago Election Day in 44 years predicted next Tuesday—with the windy, rain-free and mild conditions extending through Tuesday evening/Wednesday morning’s Obama Rally at Grant Park

ELECTION DAY WEATHER FORECAST----For next Tuesday November 4, 2008

The evidence for warm, windy and rain-free weather for Election Day as well as for the Grant Park Obama Rally in the 8pm to 1 am period Tuesday night and Wednesday morning continues VERY strong. Showers and late-season thunderstorms are not likely reach Chicago until Wednesday night and Thursday next week---WELL after the election and rally.

Here’s our latest Tuesday November 4 weather forecast:

Chicago’s mildest Election Day in the 44 years since a 75-degree Chicago high on Election Day (November 3) 1964 . Generous if not unlimited sunshine next Tuesday Nov. 4, windy and unseasonably mild. Only a few fair weather clouds and patches of high thin clouds. South to southwest winds increase 12 to 24 m.p.h. Tuesday’s predicted high: 68-degrees. (Note: That’s 14-degrees above the normal 54-degree November 4 high and 19-degrees above the 49-degree high last presidential election day in Chicago in 2004.

FORECAST FOR THE OBAMA GRANT PARK RALLY Tuesday evening/early Wednesday morning

Fair, breezy and quite mild for the season from 8 pm-1am Tuesday evening into Wednesday morning. South winds 12 to 18 m.p.h. during the rally at Grant Park temperatures at 8pm around 62-degree lowering to 56-degrees by 1 am. That’s remarkably mild for a November evening which typically cools to lows in the mid 30s at night. Current indications are that showers and thunderstorms advancing through the Plains are NO THREAT to the Grant Park Rally Tuesday night/Wednesday morning, remaining WELL west of Illinois until Wednesday night.

Tom Skilling, Chief Meteorologist, WGN/Chicago Tribune