WINTER STORM UPDATE-TEMPERATURES APPROACHING 32 DEGREES
The bad news is that light freezing rain is continuing across much of the Chicago metropolitan area this evening, but the good news is that temperatures are creeping toward 32 degrees. At 7 p.m. both O'Hare and Midway had reached 30 degrees with 31 degrees readings reported at DuPage, Wheeling and Aurora. Thawing has already begun at Kankakee where the mercury stands at 34 degrees.
The temperature will continue its slow rise through the night reaching the 40s on Sunday. This will allow today's snow and glaze to melt away. High temperatures will likely approach the 50 degree mark Sunday afternoon, but readings will crash back into the 30s by evening as strong northwest winds sweep in a shot of colder air. By Monday morning, the mercury should hover near 20 degrees.
With the city's first winter storm of the season about to become history, forecasters are already looking at the next system which may be approaching the area by late Tuesday. This storm, an Alberta Clipper type, could bring a round of accumulating snow to the city Tuesday night into Wednesday. In tune with the turn of the calendar to December 1, meteorological winter has truly arrived in Chicago.
Steve Kahn WGN Weather Center Meteorologist