Chicago Weather Monday: Clouds and 61 Today, a Warm 70 on Election Day, Then Wednesday Soaks at 88 Percent
Chicago's election week weather holds its shape in the station feed Monday morning: a mostly dry Monday near 61, the week's warmest day on Election Day at 70, and a soaking Wednesday with rain chances at 88 percent before a cooler, quieter back half of the week.
Monday morning in Chicago is overcast and mild — 54.5 degrees at the lakefront, feeling like 51.8 — on the way to a high of 60.9 with only a 7 percent chance of precipitation, the station's Open-Meteo feed shows. It is a workable last day of early voting: dry, gray and a degree or two warmer than Sunday's forecast for Monday suggested.
Election Day itself remains the week's warm outlier. Tuesday's high is 70.3 degrees with a low of 59.1 and a 54 percent precipitation chance under overcast skies — warm enough that the rain, if it comes, falls on voters in shirtsleeves rather than coats. Polls are open 6 a.m. to 7 p.m., and the feed's Tuesday numbers have held steady across the last three forecast cycles.
The week's real weather arrives Wednesday: a high of 63.8, a low of 54.3 and an 88 percent precipitation chance with rain showers — the wettest day in the seven-day feed by a wide margin. After that the pattern breaks cooler and calmer: 54.3 on Thursday, barely past 50 on Friday and Saturday, and 48.8 by Sunday, with precipitation chances back down between 11 and 25 percent.
