Meteorological summer (June-August) has been very wet, but it should end on a dry note Sunday. A warm, muggy Saturday generated scattered showers and thunderstorms, which added to this summer’s impressive rainfall totals. O’Hare received 0.27 inches, raising the city’s official summer rainfall total to 17.25 inches, more than 5 inches above normal. On the South Side, Midway airport received just 0.02 inches, but that raised the summer total there to 25.07 inches, more than 13 inches above normal and the most rain ever recorded in any Chicago summer since 1871.
A rare 90-less August?
If the official high temperature fails to reach 90 at O’Hare on Sunday, it will mark the city’s first August without a 90 since 1986 and only the sixth since 1942, when the city’s official thermometer was moved inland from its previous lake-cooled environment.
