It’s a familiar quirk of the weather: When it turns stormy and inclement across eastern and western portions of the United States, the center is invariably quiet by comparison. And so it is today.
Hurricanes (or their remnants) have easterners crying “Enough, already!” while residents of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah view the approach of a Pacific tropical storm with increasing trepidation.
Avalanches of hurricane-related publicity have buried the recent statistics of Chicago’s pleasant weather. Rain has fallen here on only two of September’s first 17 days and total rainfall is a meager 0.26 inch. Afternoon high temperatures have climbed to 80(degrees) or higher on 12 of the 17 days–more than were logged in all of August.
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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.
