Chicago: Picture perfect! Sunny. Very dry air helps produce clear haze-free skies. ESE winds limit shoreline highs only a few degrees. Highs: mid 70s lakeshore to 83(degrees) Fox Valley south to Kankakee. Clear, quite cool for the season tonight, especially in outlying areas.
HIGH: 78
LOW: 54
FIRST OFFICIAL SUB-80(degrees) SAT. HIGH IN TWO MONTHS
Note: Predicted high and low temperatures on the Tribune weather page are chronological–the “high” refers to the maximum reading expected during the day and the “low” is the minimum reading expected the following night.
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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.
