8 Chicago Tribune Arts+Entertainment Section 4 Tuesday, November 26, 2019 CHICAGO WEATHER CENTER By Tom Skilling and chicagoweathercenter.com TUESDAY, NOV. 26 NORMAL HIGH: 43° NORMAL LOW: 28° RECORD HIGH: 67° (1990) RECORD LOW: 2° (1898) Storms ahead of Thanksgiving to impact travel LOCAL FORECAST NATIONAL FORECAST -10s HIGH LOW 48 42 Steady or rising at night ■ Major storm system intensifying over plains to bring rain and wind. ■ Tranquil morning belies impending storm. Filtered sun gives way to clouds by afternoon. Daybreak temps generally mid-upper 30s. ■ Patchy rain/showers develop during afternoon. Heavier, widespread rain and embedded t-storms arrive during the evening. ■ Temps reach mid-upper 40s late, then spike in the 50s during the evening. ■ SE winds increase to 15-25 mph. Turn S 20-30 mph and gusty after dark. ■ Rain ends, turning colder overnight. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 27 HIGH LOW 46 Steady or rising at night 28 Blustery and colder. Wind-whipped clouds bring sprinkles/flurries early, then clouds decrease. SW winds 25-35 mph gust over 50 mph at times. Turn NW. Temps in low-mid 40s early, slowly fall through day. -0s 0s 10s 20s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s 40s 20s 50s International Falls 29/20 Bismarck 31/22 Billings 31/19 Portland 42/35 40s 30s Spokane 37/29 Seattle 44/37 30s Concord 52/28 30s Albany any Green Bay 55/35 41/38 Boston 59/39 Minneapolis Detroit Buffalo 36/30 Chicago 49/45 48/41 New York Monday’s lowest: 1° 60/44 at Alamosa, Colo. Des Moines 48/42 Pittsburgh Cheyenne Reno 42/31 60/46 Omaha Cleveland 19/3 42/34 41/30 55/50 Washington Salt Lake City Indianapolis St. Louis Kansas City 62/47 34/24 54/50 San Denver 59/40 58/33 Francisco 26/13 Louisville Las Vegas Wichita 52/45 59/55 50/38 61/30 Charlotte Los Angeles 63/48 Albuquerque Little Rock Nashville 69/52 38/22 Phoenix 69/43 63/59 61/42 Oklahoma City Atlanta Birmingham 65/53 72/33 San Diego 66/61 67/54 Dallas Jackson 77/44 72/61 El Paso Pas Houston 62/38 81/61 Orlando New 76/55 Orleans 76/68 Miami (Precipitation at 7 a.m. CDT) Monday’s highest: 91° 78/68 Boise 39/34 Rapid City 29/14 20s 30s 40s 10s 50s 60s 50s 60s 40s 60s 50s 60s 70s 70s 80s SNOW at Cotulla, Texas RAIN THURSDAY, NOV. 28 HIGH LOW 39 Steady or rising at night FRIDAY, NOV. 29 32 Weather improves for Thanksgiving as high pressure builds across the region. Filtered sun emerges through extensive mid-high clouds. Chilly. Temps peak near 40 degrees. N-NE winds around 10 mph. SATURDAY, NOV. 30 HIGH LOW 41 Steady or rising at night 38 Peeks of morning sun fade as clouds thicken ahead of another major storm system. Temps slowly climb to around 40, then hold nearly steady at night. Rain overspreads the area after dark as SE winds increase. SUNDAY, DEC. 1 HIGH LOW 47 Steady or rising at night 31 Rain, at daybreak, continues much of the day. Windy and milder. Temps reach late day highs from low 40s far N to mid 50s S. SE winds 20-30 mph shift SW late. Turning colder overnight with a chance of flurries. Chicago MONDAY, DEC. 2 HIGH LOW 39 Steady or rising at night 29 Blustery and colder. Peeks of sun emerge at times, otherwise cloudy with a chance of flurries. Temps struggle to climb to near 40. W-NW winds turn N and increase to 20-30 mph and gusty. Clearing at night. HIGH LOW 36 Steady or rising at night 26 Brisk, chilly to start the day. Lingering cloud patches may yield a few flurries. High pressure builds in, bringing clearing skies. Temps peak in mid-upper 30s. NW winds 15-25 mph diminish in the afternoon. Chicago Chicago Chicago Low pressure centered over the central Rockies Monday was already spreading an expanding cloud mass eastward over the Plains, with heavy snow falling from Utah, into Colorado and Wyoming. This disturbance is forecast to organize over the central plains on Tuesday, then intensify as it moves northeast to the upper Midwest by Wednesday. This has prompted the National Weather Service to issue watches and warnings. Heavy snow and blowing snow can be expected as close as northwest Iowa, Minnesota and northern Wisconsin. To the south, severe thunderstorms will be possible across the mid and lower Mississippi valley. Much of the Midwest can expect strong, and perhaps damaging wind gusts on Wednesday. Locally, winds could gust to 60 mph, impacting airport operations. Chicago Chicago ASK TOM CHICAGO DIGEST Dear Walt, More than 40 years of observations by weather satellites has revealed how far-reaching some lakeinduced weather features can be. Winter clouds and snow flurries have been tracked as far southeast as eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina. The installation of the National Weather Service’s powerful Doppler radar here in 1993 has allowed us to follow lake breezes 50 miles inland. Converging winds along a lake breeze front made it into Kane and DeKalb counties years ago. These are exceptional examples. Most often, temperature effects are much less intrusive, on the scale of several miles from Lake Michigan. Write to: ASK TOM 2501 W. Bradley Place Chicago, IL 60618 asktomwhy@wgntv.com WGN-TV meteorologists Mark Carroll, Steve Kahn, Richard Koeneman, Paul Merzlock and Paul Dailey, plus Bill Snyder, contribute to this page. Hear Demetrius Ivory’s weather updates weekdays 3 to 6 p.m. on WGNAM 720 Chicago. Powerful autumn storm to bring rain/damaging gusts here WINTER STORM WATCH STORM WATCH (LAKE MICHIGAN) HIGH WIND WATCH PROJECTED SNOWFALL 2” 4” Valparaiso Kankakee Morris Joliet Chicago-Midway Peru Waukegan Chicago-O’Hare Aurora West Chicago 56° 56° 56° 56° 55° 55° 55° 53° 53° 53° 35 MPH 45 MPH 55 MPH 60 MPH SOURCES: Frank Wachowski, NWS archives MIDWEST CITIES TUES./WED. 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Marie cl Traverse City sh 49 47 36 40 44 45 43 34 33 37 rn rn sn sn rn 55 53 36 34 48 33 33 29 23 32 Iowa Ames Cedar Rapids Des Moines Dubuque 41 45 42 45 30 33 31 36 pc ss pc sh 34 36 36 40 22 24 24 26 0.75” H MICHIGAN SHORELINE TO TAKE A POUNDING WEDNESDAY 4PM Thursday (Thanksgiving Day) wave height Arrows depict Wednesday afternoon surface winds TUES./WED. FC HI LO FC HI LO TUESDAY Abilene pc Albany pc Albuquerque pc Amarillo pc Anchorage sh Asheville cl Aspen sn Atlanta pc Atlantic City pc Austin sh Baltimore pc Billings pc Birmingham pc Bismarck sh Boise pc Boston pc Brownsville pc Buffalo sh Burlington pc Charlotte pc Charlstn SC pc Charlstn WV cl Chattanooga cl Cheyenne sn Cincinnati cl Cleveland pc Colo. Spgs sn Columbia MO ts Columbia SC pc Columbus cl Concord pc Crps Christi pc Dallas pc Daytona Bch. pc Denver sn Duluth pc El Paso pc Fairbanks Fargo Flagstaff Fort Myers Fort Smith Fresno Grand Junc. 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(through 4 p.m.) Season to date Normal to date 54 3 MIDWAY O’HARE PERIOD SOURCE: Frank Wachowski LAKE MICHIGAN CONDITIONS TUESDAY WEDNESDAY Wind E 10-20 kts. W-NW 40-50 kts. Waves 2-3 feet 8-12 feet Mon. shore/crib water temps 40°/37° 12 U.S. SNOW COVER NOV. 25 13 2019 2018 Area covered by snow 12.9% 23.6% Average snow depth 0.6" 1.3" TRACKING THE COLD FC HI LO 86 71 52 51 67 69 74 94 86 66 41 82 45 73 68 52 44 52 80 83 85 80 68 45 53 25 45 54 77 85 36 78 63 75 87 47 33 76 54 48 37 50 59 50 80 80 54 18 64 40 68 49 49 31 37 52 57 75 67 49 44 47 13 39 42 54 65 34 62 52 53 61 31 22 SINCE OCT. 15 O’HARE MIDWAY Sub-32° highs Subzero lows 4 days 0 days 2 days 0 days CHICAGO AIR QUALITY WORLD CITIES TUES./WED. FC HI LO FC HI LO LO 53 55 56 55 54 Mon. (through 4 p.m.) 0.00" 0.10" November to date 0.88" 2.63" Year to date 47.00" 34.12" TOM SKILLING, PAUL MERZLOCK, BILL SNYDER, CLAUDIA OLECH AND JENNIFER M. KOHNKE / WGN-TV TUES./WED. FC HI LO FC HI LO HI Aurora Gary Kankakee Lakefront Lansing PERIOD PROJECTED RAIN 6 7 8 10 LOCATION CHICAGO PRECIPITATION 0.75” 0.75” OTHER U.S. CITIES FC HI LO FC HI LO rn rn rn rn HIG H W C AT IN D W 1” E 1” 0.75” 0.75” 0.50” LAKESHORE FLOOD ADVISORY TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY ESTIMATED PEAK WIND GUSTS WEDNESDAY / 0.50” High temps observed Monday afternoon ANOTHER DAY IN THE 50s—LATE MONTH MILD SPELL PRECEDES STORMINESS 8” OW SN PROJECTED SNOW/RAIN Covers the period through 6 PM Thanksgiving Day Thursday SEVERE THUNDERSTORM RISK 12” 12” LI N MAJOR CYCLONE DEVELOPMENT WINTER STORM TO WREAK WARNINGS HAVOC ACROSS CENTRAL UNITED STATES BLIZZARD Weather WARNING watches/ warnings RED FLAG WARNING in effect (FIRE) Tuesday to HIGH WIND Wednesday WARNINGS RA IN Dear Tom, Lake Michigan has obvious effects on the weather here in the Chicago area, but are there any effects farther out? Walt Lowenthal, Chicago MONDAY TEMPERATURES TUESDAY Monday's reading Tuesday's forecast Critical pollutant FC HI LO Kingston pc Lima pc Lisbon rn London sh Madrid sh Manila pc Mexico City pc Monterrey pc Montreal sh Moscow cl Munich cl Nairobi ts Nassau pc New Delhi sh Oslo ss Ottawa cl Panama City ts Paris sh Prague sh Rio de Janeiro pc Riyadh pc Rome pc Santiago su Seoul pc Singapore ts Sofia sh Stockholm sh Sydney su Taipei sh Tehran su Tokyo sh Toronto pc Trinidad ts Vancouver pc Vienna cl Warsaw cl Winnipeg cl 89 73 64 56 61 89 77 89 44 25 51 73 79 73 34 47 87 55 44 80 79 65 79 47 88 46 41 71 72 49 55 48 84 43 47 37 29 79 65 55 48 50 79 53 67 32 24 38 60 72 59 31 31 76 50 36 65 58 50 49 29 77 37 39 60 64 35 48 39 76 35 38 34 20 Moderate Moderate Particulates TUESDAY RISE/SET TIMES Sun Moon Nov. 26 6:52 a.m. 6:42 a.m. Dec. 4 4:22 p.m. 4:43 p.m. Dec. 11 Dec. 18 TUESDAY PLANET WATCH PLANET RISE SET Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn 5:07 a.m. 9:07 a.m. 4:23 a.m. 8:51 a.m. 10:08 a.m. 3:32 p.m. 5:59 p.m. 2:57 p.m. 5:55 p.m. 7:22 p.m. BEST VIEWING TIME DIRECTION Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn 6° ESE 6° SW 8.5° ESE 5.5° SW 15.5° SW 5:45 a.m. 5:15 p.m. 5:15 a.m. 5:15 p.m. 5:30 p.m. SOURCE: Dan Joyce, Triton College FORECAST (FC) ABBREVIATIONS: su-sunny pc-partly cloudy cl-cloudy rn-rain ts-thunderstorm sn-snow fl -flurries fr-freezing rain sl-sleet sh-showers rs-rain/snow ss-snow showers w-windy na-unavailable 50% OFF MORE ACCESS. 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