Chicago Weather Update: Monday Picks Up a Small Rain Chance, Election Day Eases to 63 Percent — and Wednesday Is Still the Wettest Day
Sunday afternoon's live feed reads 57.7 degrees under grey skies. The week ahead: a cooler, mostly grey Monday near 58, a warmer but rainy Election Day at 68, and the week's heaviest rain on Wednesday.
Sunday is closing the way it spent most of its hours: grey and mild. The station's live feed read 57.7 degrees on Sunday afternoon, feeling like 56.1, on a day topping out at 58.7 with a low of 50 and a 23 percent chance of rain. It is the calm front edge of a week that turns wetter as it goes.
Monday — the last day of early voting — has changed slightly since this morning's forecast. The live feed now puts a 14 percent chance of light rain (weather code 51) on the day, with a high of 58.4 and a mild low of 55.6. That is not a washout, and it should not keep anyone from a polling place, but it is no longer the fully dry Monday the morning file promised: voters heading out after work may want the umbrella within reach.
Election Day itself has eased a little and warmed a lot. Tuesday now carries a 63 percent rain chance — down from the 72 percent in this morning's story — under weather code 63, with a high of 68.1 and a low of 58.4, the warmest day of the week by nearly ten degrees. Wednesday remains the week's wettest day at a 74 percent rain chance with a high of 61.1, before the pattern dries and cools: Thursday at 55.9 with a 17 percent chance, Friday at 53, and Saturday at 51 with just a 7 percent chance — the week's clearest day, saved for the weekend.
