As families across Chicago prepare for a festive Christmas Eve, the weather appears to have its own agenda, rolling out a carpet of drizzly gray rather than a white, snowy blanket. According to the National Weather Service, the city can expect "areas of drizzle after 5 pm" with "mostly cloudy" skies and a high near 44 degrees, accompanied by south southeast winds around 10 mph, gusting up to 15 mph.
Tonight presents "drizzle, mainly before 11 pm" and burgeoning "patchy fog after midnight," with lows hovering around 38 degrees, while the wind shifts north northeast after midnight, according to the same source. Christmas Day itself will maintain the cloudy streak, highs cresting at 41 degrees, and those dreaming of a white Christmas might have to wait.
In similar reporting, FOX 32 Chicago also indicates that the holiday will keep its "dry but gray" demeanor, with temperatures in the low 40s. The report further teases a potential warm spell on Friday and Saturday that could see the mercury brush against 50 degrees leisurely, before a cold front barrels through "sometime Saturday night into Sunday morning," inviting chillier air that will send the thermometer plummeting come Sunday.
"It’s still a long way off, but both of our primary longer-range computer models are suggesting some light snow may fall on New Year’s Eve," affirms the FOX 32 Chicago forecast, dangling a thread of hope for those yearning for flurries before the year's end; until then, the city will brace for a bracing cold snap, Monday's highs an icy embrace of the low to mid-20s and the story of the skies written in varying shades of cloud cover and the odd peep of sun.
