The city will try again for its third official 90(degrees) high of the season today after Sunday’s temps peaked just shy of the hot weather benchmark. This latest flirtation with heat will be brief as a cold front passes Tuesday and re-establishes the pattern of northeast winds that have dominated this summer. The cool pattern may linger as computer forecasts offer little chance of hot weather returning to the city before mid-August.
Scattered strong thunderstorms are expected to erupt in the hot, humid air mass this afternoon as they did Sunday along the Iowa-Missouri border, producing 1″ hail and damaging winds to 70 m.p.h.
While much of the central and eastern United States has been cool this summer, the heat has been shifted to Alaska and the West. Normally cool Bethel in southwest Alaska recorded its warmest July in history with daily highs there averaging 70.1(degrees).
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Tom Skilling is chief meteorologist at WGN-TV. His forecasts can be seen Monday through Friday on WGN-TV News at noon and 9 p.m.
WGN-TV meteorologists Steve Kahn, Richard Koeneman and Paul Dailey plus weather producer Bill Snyder contribute to this page.
