Chicago Storm

100 MDW.

99 at MDW. We'll have to see if there was an intra-hour reading I missed. If not, might get 99'd with cirrus moving through now.

Definitely not any sort of pre-frontal trough right now. That area of cirrus lifting up through the region appears to be tied to interaction with the low over TX.

I was 50/50 earlier in regards to heading to SW WI for today. Given terrain and questionable storm mode, opted not to head out. Will continue to watch things evolve through the day, and keep a watch on the border region (Far S WI & Far N IL) should things look more interesting (16z HRRR Environment).

Over 24hrs later and it’s still going.

With the cold front, t’storms and outflow to worry about…It’s likely to be a very difficult task to accomplish.

Final high temps for the day... 100 MDW 98 ORD 98 RFD 99 Ex-Home 90+ tally for the year... 8 - MDW7 - RFD5 - Current Home5 - Ex-Home3 - ORD

The MCS that originated from the Milwaukee and Chicago are supercell t’storms is now pushing through S GA/SE AL/N FL.

98° for a high is impressive after the combination of having nearly 1” of rain yesterday, a low temp this morning of 65° and low to mid 70’s DP’s.

ORD up to 98. Are we going to get 99'd?

100° at MDW.

Peak temps so far today... 99 MDW 96 ORD 98 RFD 96 MLI 97 MKE

The hourly Hoosier peak temp round-up... 98 MDW 96 ORD 97 RFD

The hourly Hoosier peak temp round-up... 98 MDW 95 ORD 96 RFD

MDW is on pace with STL, with both sitting at 95 now.

MDW exceeded your 10AM mark, with a peak of 90°. ORD actually hit your mark with a peak of 89°.

As I mentioned yesterday, I ended up getting on the well covered tornado warned supercell t’storm that moved through the Chicago metro. I first got on the storm as it was exiting Elgin and moving into Streamwood. Very shortly after this time I did witness some wrapping to the rain curtains as it was moving very near my ex-home, with the couplet on radar being buried back in the rain. I continued to follow the storm ESE, and it made another attempt at doing something in Roselle, at the time there was another couplet on radar, but once again it was buried in the rain and would be out of visual range. I continued on ESE with the storm for a bit longer into Addison, before calling the chase as the storm headed towards ORD. I ended up heading back to Streamwood, and found a large area of RFD damage. On the right side of this RFD damage swath is a more concentrated/significant damage corridor, which is very near where the radar couplet was located. All of the damage I came across was tree and property damage, as I did not find any sort of structural damage. However, some of the tree damage was fairly significant, especially in the aforementioned corridor. Property damage consisted of trees down on homes and vehicles, blown down fences and some trampolines/gazebos/canopys that were blown away and/or destroyed. I came across two trampolines caught in a tree and on a power pole/power line, as well as as a gazebo gazebo that was blown up into a tree. I headed back out to do a little more personal surveying this morning, and have found that corridor of more concentrated/significant extends further north as well, and is approximately 3 blocks wide or so. In this new northern extent to the corridor, I did find some singles off of a home and metal up in a tree wrapped around a branch, and at this location there was the most significant tree damage of anywhere along the corridor.

ORD has jumped from 69° to 75° to 82° the last 3 hours. 86° at MDW as of 8AM.

ORD bottomed out at 65° last night/this morning, and is ‘only’ up to 69° as of 6AM. Looks like the warm front was kicked back south a bit across N IL overnight. Will be interesting to see how hot it gets and how accurate the HRRR is with a 98/99° high temp there for today. Can’t imagine there are many days around here that have started in the mid-upper 60’s, and finished near 100°.

I keep forgetting a bit that there was that mid-May heat wave, as I wasn’t around for it. I’d obviously take any heat, but I do get your point. Just don’t get 99’d.

For Hoosier…

Highest wind gust on record for Chicago is 87MPH, set on 2/12/1894. Tying the ORD high wind gust record is quality though.

I'll go 95 ORD and 98 MDW for tomorrow.

Was probably never realistically going to hit 100 out there anyway. The Euro was off it's rocker with the more widespread 100's, with unreasonable mixing. STL was the 100 or bust location, and they did manage to hit it today...With two more shots to go, to better that number.

84MPH wind gust at ORD.