Rains to swipe Chicago—but drench areas south
Rain with the latest spring storm is only expected to swipe Chicago proper Friday night —and could all but bypass north suburban areas. That’s not the case in areas south. Rainfalls there are likely to increase sharply, though a suite of computer projections generated late Thursday suggest the heaviest totals—1” or greater amounts —are to occur 90 or more miles south of the Loop, in areas toward Watseka, Illinois and Rensselaer, Indiana and south. Severe t-storms are possible even farther downstate.
The blustery storm has whitened the mountains of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming in recent days and tugged a record chill into that area. While southern Alaska and the Yukon saw a 4th day of record June-level temps in the 60s and low 70s Thursday, record morning lows gripped Montana—including 9° at Phillipsburg and 16° at Havre. Daytime highs held 30° below normal in Wyoming.