Midway’s 69° Tuesday: The chilliest Aug. 29 in 41 years
Autumn was in the air again Tuesday. October-level temperatures paid the Chicago area a visit for a second consecutive day. Midway Airport’s 69° high temperature was the coolest on an August 29 in 41 years—since a 66° high in 1965. The reading ranks among the three coolest for the date since weather observations began at Midway in 1928. The late summer “chill” is especially noticeable coming at the end of a season in which 61% of daily average temperatures have finished above normal.
By early next week, Chicago will have logged 11 consecutive highs below 80°—its longest pre-autumn cool spell in 12 years.
Late arriving reports on Monday’s deluge indicate even heavier rain totals than first reported across southern sections of the metro area. Among the heaviest totals were 3.50” at Hammond, Lansing and Munster, 3.13” at Park Forest, 3.32” at Morris and 2.84” at Rensselaer, Ind.
-Tom Skilling, WGN-TV Meteorologist