A dramatic weather pattern shift (for which the Midwest is notorious) is beginning to unfold. The change from a cool, cloudy and rainy weather regime to sunny, hot and humid conditions gets under way Thursday, though it will be a multi-day transition. The Storm Prediction Center advises that a powerful impulse moving across portions of the central and southeastern United States is likely to trigger severe thunderstorms here (and elsewhere in a band from Minnesota to the Carolinas) later today. Storms move out of the Chicago area by Saturday morning and the weekend looks dry.
Warm, muggy days ahead
A broad swath of the nation from Oklahoma and Texas east to Georgia has been sweating through 90-degree temperatures and oppressive humidity for several days. That air mass is expanding northward and is due to arrive in Chicago in about a week. And once it gets here, the muggy weather is likely to persist for several days. Beginning one week from today, computer models indicate a string of five to seven days here with afternoon temperatures in the 90s.
Warm, muggy days ahead
A broad swath of the nation from Oklahoma and Texas east to Georgia has been sweating through 90-degree temperatures and oppressive humidity for several days. That air mass is expanding northward and is due to arrive in Chicago in about a week. And once it gets here, the muggy weather is likely to persist for several days. Beginning one week from today, computer models indicate a string of five to seven days here with afternoon temperatures in the 90s.
