A couple of dry days before rain revisits city

High pressure anchored over the Great Lakes will remain strong
across northern Illinois on Monday and then weaken Tuesday as it
heads east and gives way to an approaching low-pressure system
from the west. Soils should continue to dry, and rivers and streams
slowly fall. But clouds and as much as a half-inch to an inch of rain
should spread over the Chicago area Wednesday. After a brief respite
and warm-up Thursday, another weather system should bring
quarter- to half-inch rains Friday.
Storms again hit Southeast
Sunday afternoon, a north-south line of thunderstorms tracked east
through the Gulf Coast states with reports of tornadoes, large hail and
widespread wind damage. There were many reports of trees and
power lines down. A woman was killed by a falling tree in Jones
County, Miss., and a report out of Perry County in west-central Alabama
indicated thousands of trees downed. As the storms continued
east, a severe thunderstorm watch was in effect Sunday evening for
western South Carolina.
--By Paul Dailey, WGN Weather Center Meteorologist