Good Wednesday to one and all. It’s another toasty temp day out there as we get ready for a cold front to roll through the state. This will bring the threat for strong storms later today with better air behind it. That looks to be the opening act to another blast of cool air for early next week.
Temps today are in the low and middle 90s with a gusty southwest wind ahead of our front. Scattered strong to severe storms then fire up during the late afternoon and increase through the evening. Some of these storms may be strong to severe with damaging winds and the Storm Prediction Center has the area in the Severe Weather Outlook…
Much better air sweeps in behind this and it feels seasonably nice Thursday into Friday. Lows by Friday morning are right back into the 50s…
Temps spike again into the upper 80s to low 90s on Saturday as we await the arrival of another cold front. This moves in late Sunday and early Monday with a possible line of strong storms…
Temps behind this come way way down early next week and go solidly below normal…
Check out those lows from the GFS…
Even the “I can never see cool air” EURO is showing below normal numbers…
The model goes on to bring another shot of below normal for the first day of July…
Think that EURO will be making the rounds on social like the “zero chance of verifying” 110 degree temp ones have been? No? 🤔🤷♂️
I leave you with your storm tracking tools for the day…
Current watches
Possible Watch Areas
Make it a great Wednesday and take care.
Thanks Chris, glad to see the European and the GFS weather models agreeing on cooler temperatures next week.
A 70% chance of isolated thunderstorms are in my local forecast for later this afternoon. Hoping this forecast pans out, and the rain showers are more widespread and not isolated.
Ninety five to hundred degrees with high dew points are also in my local forecast for this afternoon. Hoping we have clouds to lower those predicted high temperatures ? Still miserable though, and only the official second day of the Summer season.
The high temperature reached 101 degrees Tuesday at Chicago’s Midway Airport, the third day in the past week there that highs have reached 100+. At the official reporting station at O’Hare Airport, the high reached 99 degrees, missing the record of 101 degrees set in 1988. In the SW Suburbs at the NWS forecast office, the high was 97 degrees.
The humidity wasn’t oppressive though, around 35 percent, so the heat index temp wasn’t much higher than the air temps.
This weather Mike with the temperatures approaching 100 degrees without our usual rain showers reminds me of the Summer 1988. I almost lost my plant nursery, but was able to recover after 1990.
Those temps next week, I’m all in!
My remote weather station is registering 97 degrees with 29% humidity at 2pm. Sure wouldn’t mind some rain for my gardens! Here’s to some rain but NO severe weather. We certainly don’t need that.
My phone’s weather widget says 97° in Richmond, WKYT News app 96° and my car thermistor said as high as 101°. Ready for the storms.