Good Wednesday, friends and neighbors! It’s another really nice and really warm weather day taking shape across the region. This continues to be part of our summer preview of a pattern that takes us through the rest of the week. Once into the weekend, we try to shake it up a bit.
Highs today are 80-85 much of central and eastern Kentucky with upper 80s to near 90 in the west. There’s the smallest risk for a shower or storm across the western half of the state, but most stay dry.
Temps do edge down some later in the week as our monster upper low off the east coast begins to pull back toward the west. This is the same system that rolled through here with some rain and storms Derby Weekend and it may get far enough west over the weekend to bring us another shot at a shower or storm…
Yes, that’s extremely rare for a system to make a loop like that and even more rare for it to impact us… Twice.
From there, a cold front moves in late Sunday into Sunday night with scattered showers and storms with it. That front may slow down on top of us early next week with some clusters of showers and storms possibly coming with it…
You can see how the GFS is cranking some storms to our west and then rolling them downstream into the state…
The EURO is trying to do the same thing…
The temperature made it all the way up to 89 degrees Tuesday afternoon at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, just one degree shy of the all-time record high for the date set in 2011. It was also 89 at the NWS Forecast Office in the SW suburbs. Dew points were in the low 70s, almost unheard of this early in the season here in the Chicago area.
Wednesday’s record high of 89 degrees set in 1982 is likely to be reached.
Here in Maple we had a high temperature yesterday of 82 degrees with dew points remaining in mid to upper 60’s. It was cloudy in the morning and turned mostly Sunny in the afternoon with very little wind. It will probably be much warmer today until the weekend when showers enter our area from the East as Chris pointed out in his blog this morning. Very rare.
Weather history made today in the Chicago area, as the high temp at O’Hare Airport reached 90 degrees in the early afternoon, breaking the all-time record high for the date of 89 set 40 years ago in 1982. An easterly breeze off Lake Michigan kept the temperatures cooler right at Chicago’s lakefront, where it’s only in the high 60s.
Here in the SW suburbs, it’s even warmer with temps around 93-94 degrees, and downright oppressive dewpoints around 74-75 degrees.
This is only the 14th year in 150 years of weather records that Chicago has reached 90 degrees this early in the year.