Chicagoans should experience a continuation of above-normal temperatures
with periods of showers and thunderstorms. Because of easterly winds off
Lake Michigan, a wide range of high temperatures occurred across the
area Sunday. Along the lakeshore, highs struggled to reach the 50s while
readings farther inland climbed to the 60s. It could be more of the same
Monday, with gusty southeast winds off the cold lake waters holding
readings to the upper 40s to low 50s near the lake and north, while
highs warm into at least the low 60s inland.
With strong southerly winds, readings should warm well into the 60s to
low 70s on Tuesday. But the approach of a major storm system should
trigger thunderstorms and downpours, especially at night as a cold front
pushes through. More than an inch of rain is possible.
Blizzard in the northern Plains
and severe storms south
Forecasts are for 1 to 2 feet of snow in eastern Wyoming and western
North and South Dakota on Monday and Tuesday, complicated by 50 m.p.h.
north winds. Severe storms could develop south, especially later Tuesday
in Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee and Kentucky.
--By Paul Dailey, WGN Weather Center Meteorologist
