Michael Johnson and Morgan Kolkmeyer
1 hour in the past
Portions of Chicagoland must brace for some critical rain later Tuesday into Wednesday.
The remnants of Tropical Typhoon Beryl are shifting up thru southern Illinois on Tuesday morning and must arrive in Chicagoland via Tuesday afternoon.
WEATHER BLOG: Beryl unleashes flooding rains and hurricane-force wind gusts in Texas; Beryl’s data and notable info
With it’ll come tropical rain, which has the prospective to drop heavy rainfall in no time.
Meteorologists use a dimension referred to as precipitable water, which necessarily measures the moisture to be had within the air. A precipitable water stage of two inches could be very prime, signaling vital rainfall doable.
WEATHER BLOG: Beryl remnants to swipe parts of the Chicago house; historical past of tropical remnants in Illinois
Spaces in southeastern Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana fall below this stage and can see the heaviest rainfall totals Tuesday and Wednesday, as much as 3 to five inches.
This sort of heavy rainfall additionally brings lowered visibility and prime flooding doable, so Cook dinner, Will, Kankakee and Grundy counties in Illinois and all of Northwest Indiana might be below a Flood Watch from 4 p.m. Tuesday to one p.m. Wednesday.
Spaces to the north and west, then again, are projected to obtain a lot much less rainfall from Beryl’s remnants. In the meantime, prime temperatures round Chicagoland on Tuesday will achieve the low 80s.
WEATHER BLOG: Extraordinarily unhealthy warmth wave persists in western U.S.; Las Vegas units file prime
Then, highly regarded and humid air will transfer into the world for the tip of the week in the course of the weekend, with dew issues smartly into the 70s and air temperatures round 90.
Forecast
TODAY: Cloudy, tropical rain and storms, winds E at 5-10 mph. Prime: 82/78.TONIGHT: Cloudy, tropical rain and storms, winds N at 5-15 mph, gusts to twenty-five. Low: 66.TOMORROW: Cloudy, tropical rain and storms, lowering clouds, winds N at 5-10 mph, gusts to fifteen. Prime: 78.
