Chicago weather: Storms moving in this morning, cooler air arrives midweek

LIVE UPDATES: Severe weather threatens Chicagoland, tornadoes possible

CHICAGO — Showers and storms are queued up close to the Mississippi river as of this writing and are starting to maneuver into far-northwest Illinois. This exercise will transfer into our space later this morning and its depth stays in query.

The threat of a extreme thunderstorm will not be zero but it surely’s trying mighty low due to the time of day that the storms are moving in. Their arrival may also really feel a lot of a warm-up, although temperatures have remained unseasonably delicate in a single day in the 70s for almost all of our space. Highs could get to 80 however that might be about it. There will probably be a pleasant southwest wind at instances reaching 30 mph outdoors of any thunderstorms.

Later in the afternoon and this night, it is going to be breezy with a slight probability of one other bathe. Temperatures will transfer again into the higher 70s.

Live extreme climate updates

• A Severe Thunderstorm Warning has been issued for Will, Grundy and Kendall counties till 11 am

• A Severe Thunderstorm Watch has been issued for a lot of the Chicago space and northwest Indiana till 5 pm

What’s subsequent:

Tomorrow could have an identical footprint of bathe and thunderstorm exercise with the majority of it taking place in the course of the morning and or early afternoon hours. In truth, it is attainable that a lot of the realm will miss out on rainfall altogether tomorrow with a bias in direction of our southern counties. Highs will as soon as once more be near 80° forward of the chilly entrance that can sweep by late in the afternoon.

Sharp midweek cooldown in Chicago

Behind that entrance we can have a few cooler days Wednesday and Thursday with highs on Wednesday struggling to hit 60 then barely in the 60s on Thursday. Both days will probably be cooler by the lake.

That development will proceed whilst temperatures climb Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Highs on Friday will probably be near 70 after which reaching 80 by Sunday. The highest probability of any rainfall throughout these three days will probably be Friday night time.