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Tuesday's modest cool-off just the start; chilliest air in 6 months Wednesday
Tom Skilling
October 9, 2007
Record warmth, especially this time of the year, is all too often followed by dramatic temperature downturns. Tuesday's comparatively modest 14(degrees) retreat in high temperature is only the beginning. Wednesday's 50s will be Chicago's coolest in nearly 6 months. The day's predicted 55(degrees) high will be the coolest here since a 53(degrees) reading on April 27. The pullback from Monday's 87(degrees) equals the normal decline in temperatures from July to early November--but it's to take place in just two days. A powerhouse eastern Pacific storm, predicted to attain the central pressure of a Category 3 hurricane (963 mb./28.44") for a time Tuesday morning is behind the stunning temperature turnaround. Warmth flooding up that system's east side is to buckle the jet stream northward over western North America--a development which sends a pool of unseasonably cool air plunging southward over the Midwest mid and late week. The cloudy, chilly air mass is to combine with NNE winds Thursday to produce lake-effect rain showers.
Sources: NOAA-NCEP, NWS Chicago, Frank WachowskiWGN-TV/Thomas Valle, Monika Bec, Patrick Korellis
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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.
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But how will this affect cricket?
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