TODAY SUNRISE: 7:10 AM SUNSET: 4:57 PM
Chicagoland weather radar is all clear at about 11:20 AM.
Satellite images show cloudy conditions over northern Illinois at 11:21 AM.
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If you are looking forward to warmer weather, this week holds some hope when you look at general weather statistics. First of all, the sunset for much of Chicagoland pushes past 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, January 28. We start gaining more minutes of daylight (about three minutes per day) with later sunsets and earlier sunrises. In most of January, very little daylight is gained each day after the Winter Solstice in late December.
Thursday, January 28 is also the day that the normal low temperature for the day starts to rise (16°F to 17°F). The 16°F normal low holds from January 11 through January 27. By the end of February, the normal low is 24°F, and by the end of March the normal low is 34°F.
The normal high rises from 31°F to 32°F on Saturday January 30. The normal high rises above freezing at 33°F on Saturday, February 6.
January 20 is the day on record with the all-time record low temperature of -27°F, so this last week of January is the first week that puts us on the increasingly warm side of the all-time record low. Significant warmup of the record low doesn’t really start until March, when the first record low day above ZERO was 2°F, recorded on March 6, 1960. The first record low day above 32°F was recorded on May 11, 1981.
NWS POINT FORECAST …
AIRPORT WEATHER OBSERVATIONS …
| Location | Time (cdt) |
Sky/Weather | Temp. (ºF) |
Dewpt. (ºF) |
Humidity (%) |
Wind (mph) |
Pressure (in) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago/O’Hare | 11:51 | Mostly Cloudy | 36 | 26 | 67 | S 10 | 29.81 | |
| Chicago Midway Airport | 11:53 | Mostly Cloudy | 38 | 25 | 60 | S 8 | 29.82 | |
| Chicago Executive Airport | 11:52 | Fair | 35 | 26 | 70 | S 12 | 29.83 | |
| Chicago / West Chicago, Dupage Airport | 11:52 | Fair | 35 | 26 | 70 | S 9 | 29.79 | |
| Aurora Municipal Airport | 11:52 | Fair | 36 | 28 | 73 | S 10 | 29.80 | |
| Gary Chicago International | 11:45 | Mostly Cloudy | 37 | 25 | 60 | S 12 | 29.84 | |
| Kenosha Regional Airport | 11:53 | Fair | 34 | 25 | 70 | SW 7 | 29.80 | |
| Chicago / Waukegan, Waukegan Regional Airport | 11:55 | Fair | 34 | 26 | 73 | S 12 | 29.80 | |
| Lansing Municipal Airport | 11:35 | Fair | 37 | 26 | 66 | S 16 G 20 | 29.84 | |
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CHICAGO EXECUTIVE AIRPORT …
| D a t e |
Time (cst) |
Wind (mph) |
Vis. (mi.) |
Weather | Sky Cond. | Temperature (ºF) | Relative Humidity |
Wind Chill (°F) |
Heat Index (°F) |
Pressure | Precipitation (in.) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Air | Dwpt | 6 hour | altimeter (in) |
sea level (mb) |
1 hr | 3 hr | 6 hr | ||||||||||
| Max. | Min. | ||||||||||||||||
| 25 | 10:52 | S 12 | 10.00 | Fair | CLR | 35 | 26 | 70% | 27 | NA | 29.83 | 1010.7 | |||||
| 25 | 09:52 | S 9 | 10.00 | Fair | CLR | 32 | 25 | 75% | 24 | NA | 29.83 | 1010.9 | |||||
| 25 | 08:52 | S 9 | 9.00 | Fair | CLR | 30 | 24 | 79% | 22 | NA | 29.85 | 1011.4 | |||||
| 25 | 07:52 | S 7 | 8.00 | Fair | CLR | 27 | 22 | 81% | 19 | NA | 29.87 | 1012.2 | |||||
| 25 | 06:52 | S 7 | 10.00 | Fair | CLR | 28 | 23 | 81% | 21 | NA | 29.86 | 1012.0 | |||||
| 25 | 05:52 | S 6 | 9.00 | Fair | CLR | 27 | 23 | 27 | 23 | 85% | 20 | NA | 29.87 | 1012.2 | |||
| 25 | 04:52 | S 6 | 9.00 | Fair | CLR | 27 | 23 | 85% | 20 | NA | 29.88 | 1012.5 | |||||
| 25 | 03:52 | SE 6 | 8.00 | Fair | CLR | 26 | 22 | 84% | 19 | NA | 29.89 | 1012.7 | |||||
| 25 | 02:52 | SE 6 | 7.00 | Fair | CLR | 26 | 22 | 84% | 19 | NA | 29.91 | 1013.5 | |||||
| 25 | 01:52 | SE 5 | 6.00 | Fog/Mist | CLR | 24 | 22 | 91% | 18 | NA | 29.92 | 1013.9 | |||||
| 25 | 00:52 | Calm | 4.00 | Fog/Mist | CLR | 25 | 23 | 92% | NA | NA | 29.93 | 1014.2 | |||||
| 24 | 23:52 | Calm | 4.00 | Fog/Mist | CLR | 23 | 22 | 30 | 23 | 96% | NA | NA | 29.93 | 1014.5 | |||
| 24 | 22:52 | Calm | 4.00 | Fog/Mist | CLR | 25 | 23 | 92% | NA | NA | 29.94 | 1014.6 | |||||
| 24 | 21:52 | Calm | 5.00 | Fog/Mist | CLR | 26 | 24 | 92% | NA | NA | 29.94 | 1014.6 | |||||
| 24 | 20:52 | Calm | 5.00 | Fog/Mist | CLR | 28 | 25 | 88% | NA | NA | 29.95 | 1015.0 | |||||
| 24 | 19:52 | Calm | 5.00 | Fog/Mist | CLR | 27 | 24 | 89% | NA | NA | 29.95 | 1015.1 | |||||
| 24 | 18:52 | Calm | 6.00 | Fair with Haze | CLR | 29 | 24 | 82% | NA | NA | 29.95 | 1015.2 | |||||
| 24 | 17:52 | Calm | 6.00 | Fog/Mist | CLR | 27 | 23 | 32 | 27 | 85% | NA | NA | 29.95 | 1015.0 | |||
| 24 | 16:52 | Calm | 5.00 | A Few Clouds with Haze | FEW027 | 30 | 23 | 75% | NA | NA | 29.95 | 1015.1 | |||||
| 24 | 15:52 | Calm | 5.00 | Overcast with Haze | OVC026 | 32 | 24 | 73% | NA | NA | 29.94 | 1014.7 | |||||
| 24 | 14:52 | W 3 | 5.00 | Overcast with Haze | OVC025 | 32 | 24 | 73% | NA | NA | 29.93 | 1014.4 | |||||
| 24 | 13:52 | SW 6 | 5.00 | Overcast with Haze | OVC017 | 31 | 24 | 76% | 25 | NA | 29.94 | 1014.7 | |||||
| 24 | 12:52 | SW 9 | 5.00 | Overcast with Haze | OVC016 | 30 | 24 | 79% | 22 | NA | 29.95 | 1015.0 | |||||
| 24 | 11:52 | SW 8 | 6.00 | Overcast with Haze | OVC015 | 28 | 22 | 28 | 24 | 78% | 20 | NA | 29.96 | 1015.5 | |||
| 24 | 10:52 | SW 7 | 6.00 | Overcast with Haze | OVC015 | 27 | 21 | 78% | 19 | NA | 29.98 | 1016.2 | |||||
| 24 | 09:52 | SW 8 | 7.00 | Overcast | OVC015 | 26 | 20 | 78% | 18 | NA | 29.99 | 1016.5 | |||||
| 24 | 08:52 | W 8 | 7.00 | Overcast | OVC016 | 25 | 19 | 78% | 16 | NA | 29.99 | 1016.4 | |||||
| 24 | 07:52 | SW 12 G 18 | 8.00 | Overcast | OVC018 | 25 | 18 | 75% | 14 | NA | 29.97 | 1015.8 | |||||
| 24 | 06:52 | SW 10 | 10.00 | Overcast | OVC024 | 24 | 17 | 75% | 14 | NA | 29.98 | 1016.2 | |||||
| 24 | 05:52 | SW 9 | 10.00 | A Few Clouds | FEW031 | 25 | 16 | 25 | 24 | 69% | 16 | NA | 29.98 | 1016.2 | |||
| 24 | 04:52 | SW 9 | 10.00 | Fair | CLR | 25 | 16 | 69% | 16 | NA | 29.98 | 1016.1 | |||||
| 24 | 03:52 | S 13 G 21 | 10.00 | Fair | CLR | 25 | 17 | 72% | 13 | NA | 29.99 | 1016.3 | |||||
| 24 | 02:52 | SW 12 | 10.00 | Fair | CLR | 25 | 17 | 72% | 14 | NA | 30.01 | 1017.1 | |||||
| 24 | 01:52 | SW 8 | 10.00 | Fair | CLR | 25 | 17 | 72% | 16 | NA | 30.03 | 1017.7 | |||||
| 24 | 00:52 | S 7 | 10.00 | Fair | CLR | 25 | 18 | 75% | 17 | NA | 30.04 | 1018.1 | |||||
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