A pleasant start, but warmth returns by mid-week
The spell of pleasantly cool temperatures and low humidities that has dominated the Chicago weather scene in recent days is drawing to a close. Readings more typical of the season return to the area Monday and Tuesday as northeast winds, prevalent since Thursday, give way to gusty southwest breezes by Tuesday.
The big weather story continues to be a stalled storm system that has been delivering persistent, massive, flooding rains to portions of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and southern Missouri. Five-day rain totals at many locations in those states exceed 15 inches, and this deluge is on top of record or near-record wet conditions in May and the first three weeks of June. Forecasts unfortunately offer the prospect of additional heavy rain there today through Tuesday, after which the area should dry out.
-By Richard Koeneman, WGN Weather Center Meteorologist
