Several types of weather this upcoming week will impact Chicago and surrounding suburbs. A complicated forecast to say the least.
area over the next several days. Everything from fog to freezing rain to plain old rain to thunderstorms to snow is likely at some point between Monday and Friday.
Let's take the various types of weather in the order they will come. Coming first is fog for early Monday and parts of Tuesday. Relatively mild air overrunning melting snow with relatively light winds will produce at least patchy fog at times for the first two days of the new week. Some patchy drizzle will form on Monday and then give way to some light rain late in the day. Rain will continue for at least portions of the area through a good part of Tuesday. The GFS Model is spitting out about a third of an inch to nearly three quarters of an inch. Even a few thunderstorms are possible Monday night into Tuesday.ice jams
on the Kankakee river that pose a flood threat if with locally heavy rain made possible by the potential thunderstorms. I was in the Wilmington area on Thursday where I observed some of those ice jams. Large chunks of ice like the ones in the photo I took there last week could continue to collect and lead to flooding upstream or break free eventually and lead to rapid water level rises downstream.
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