Impressive round of lightning and thunder with storms in the northwest suburbs passed overhead, moving to the east-northeast at about 45 MPH. Two or three additional rounds of frequent lightning and thunder are likely to cross the northwest suburbs for the next three hours (until about 4:30 a.m. to 5:00 a.m.), unless they diminish before reaching our area. Friday’s skies will begin clearing by about 9:00 a.m. with gusty winds to about 30 MPH.
In the first round of storms, the more severe lightning was over northern Arlington Heights, Buffalo Grove, Crystal Lake, Lincolnshire. Lightning and brief power interruptions activated numerous fire alarms and burglar alarms, but at 1:50 a.m. Friday there were no ComEd outages reported in Arlington Heights or nearby communities, except for Hoffman Estates near Glen Lake Road and Glen Lane with 34 customers without power.
A Flash Flood Waning from issued from just west of Rockford to the Lake Michigan shoreline, and from the Illinois-Wisconsin to about the Lake-Cook borderline.
Weather Radar (also nexrad.chgowx.com) shows widespread thunderstorms moving to the east-northeast at 1:30 a.m.
Flash Flood Warning including Rockford IL, Waukegan IL, Crystal Lake IL until 6:45 AM CDT pic.twitter.com/mYRopmCQ0T
— NWS Chicago (@NWSChicago) September 13, 2019
Strong to severe storms still possible over the next couple of hours, especially across portions of north central IL. pic.twitter.com/XRsj4e5d4o
— NWS Chicago (@NWSChicago) September 13, 2019
O’HARE FORECAST …
Overnight: Showers and thunderstorms. Low around 71. South wind around 10 mph, with gusts as high as 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.
Friday: A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 10am. Cloudy through mid morning, then gradual clearing, with a high near 77. Breezy, with a west southwest wind 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.
Friday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 59. West northwest wind 5 to 15 mph.
Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 80. Light west wind becoming southwest 5 to 10 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 15 mph.
Saturday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 1am. Partly cloudy, with a low around 65. South southwest wind around 5 mph, with gusts as high as 15 mph.
Sunday: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 1pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 82.
Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 66.
Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 80.
Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 64.
Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 81.
Tuesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 64.
Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 81.
Wednesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 64.
Thursday: A slight chance of showers. Sunny, with a high near 80.
LAKE TEMPS …
SOUTHERN LAKE MICHIGAN WATER TEMPERATURES
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO/ROMEOVILLE IL
904 AM CDT Thu Sep 12 2019
LAKE MICHIGAN WATER TEMPERATURES…
CHICAGO SHORE……….67.
CHICAGO CRIB……….59.
WILMETTE BUOY……….66.
WAUKEGAN BUOY……….63.
WINTHROP HARBOR BUOY……….M.
MICHIGAN CITY……….51.
MICHIGAN CITY BUOY……….68.
SOUTH MID LAKE BUOY……….69.
NORTH MID LAKE BUOY……….62.
&&
M IS FOR MISSING DATA THAT IS NORMALLY AVAILABLE.
THE MICHIGAN CITY WATER TEMPERATURE SENSOR IS LOCATED AT A WATER
INTAKE ONE MILE OFFSHORE AND 60 FEET BELOW WATER SURFACE. IT IS READ EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR.
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