As if taking a cue from the calendar, Chicago's weather has finally turned summery and will remain so through the week. It won't be oppressively hot or oppressively humid.
And thunderstorms--an integral component of the warm season around here--will be in and out of the picture through Friday, but the great majority of hours during the five days will be dry.
Chicago sits at the northern edge of hot air to the south, and that air mass will repeatedly splash into the city this week, then retreat slightly.
Southern heat is on
Sweltering summer temperatures and sticky humidity are no strangers to the southern half of the United States in June, July and August. Residents there accept it and deal with it. This year, though, oppressive heat and humidity arrived early and hit hard from Kansas,
Oklahoma and Texas east across the Deep South. Many cities there have been establishing daily high temperature records since early last week, and computer models indicate no significant change to the sultry pattern this week.
And thunderstorms--an integral component of the warm season around here--will be in and out of the picture through Friday, but the great majority of hours during the five days will be dry.
Chicago sits at the northern edge of hot air to the south, and that air mass will repeatedly splash into the city this week, then retreat slightly.
Southern heat is on
Sweltering summer temperatures and sticky humidity are no strangers to the southern half of the United States in June, July and August. Residents there accept it and deal with it. This year, though, oppressive heat and humidity arrived early and hit hard from Kansas,
Oklahoma and Texas east across the Deep South. Many cities there have been establishing daily high temperature records since early last week, and computer models indicate no significant change to the sultry pattern this week.
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