Temperatures slightly improved Saturday after the coldest December day recorded in Chicago in nearly 40 years, according to the National Weather Service.
The mercury topped out at minus 1 on Friday, the most frigid December temperature felt in the city since 1983.While it certainly didn’t feel much better, the city was poised for an 11-degree increase from Friday, as wind gusts went from the 45-to-50 mph range down to a still bone-chilling 30-to-35 mph, according to NWS meteorologist Brian Leatherwood.FOX 32's Mark Strehl has your morning weather forecast.
Highs were forecasted to be in the single digits to teens on Christmas Day, with a possibility of accumulating snow late Sunday into early Monday."At some point, that high pressure [system] is going to shift off to the south and to our east and the strong northerly winds are going to become strong southerly winds that are going to bring all that warm air from down south," Leatherwood told the Sun-Times.
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