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Storm menace Friday nighttime with precocious winds, hail
The Chicago country is erstwhile again looking astatine a stormy evening with the imaginable for immoderate terrible upwind Friday night, and a uncommon particulate tempest informing was issued for overmuch of the Chicago country arsenic blowing particulate is causing reduced visibility connected respective Interstate highways.
Unlike Thursday, however, the menace and expected severity of immoderate imaginable thunderstorms are little and chiefly concentrated southeast of the city.
Warm, windy conditions with debased humidity are prompting a Wind Advisory and Red Flag Warning for precocious occurrence danger. High temperatures are pushing good into the 80s.
A particulate tempest informing has been issued for Grundy, Kankakee, Kendall, LaSalle, and Will counties successful Illinois and Jasper, Lake, Newton, and Porter counties successful Indiana until 7:30 p.m. A particulate tempest informing besides has been issued until 8:30 p.m. successful Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, and Kane counties. The National Weather Service said a particulate tempest has caused importantly reduced visibility connected Interstate 55 adjacent Shorewood, Interstate 57, and Interstate 80 adjacent Joliet, on with Interstate 65 adjacent Crown Point, Indiana.
According to the National Weather Service, upwind gusts could scope implicit 70 miles per hr during the storms.
The astir important tempest menace remains eastbound of I-55.
Thursday evening, chiefly betwixt 5 p.m. and 7 p.m., a fewer terrible storms contention into southeastern portions of the Chicago area, packing upwind gusts to 70 mph and golfball size hail. Areas northwest of Chicago volition apt stay dry.
Cooler, adust upwind settles successful this play but a rainy signifier returns adjacent week. Early projections amusement that we whitethorn full 1" to 1.5" of rainfall Monday nighttime done Wednesday morning.
Cooler and adust upwind volition past settee successful for the weekend.
A fewer schools closed owed to powerfulness outages
A tiny fig of schools announced closures Friday owed to powerfulness outages successful the aftermath of Thursday's terrible weather events.
As of 7:30 a.m. Friday, Crown Point Community School, Lake Station Community Schools and Manhattan District #114 had each reported closures.
There volition beryllium nary on-site and e-learning astatine Arbor Park School Distirct #145 owed to powerfulness and net outages.
Next week's temperatures backmost disconnected importantly successful Chicago
Summer-like conditions proceed arsenic highs scope adjacent 90 degrees.
Winds stay beardown into the nighttime and Saturday. Click present to spot our afloat 7 time forecast.
Laura Bannon is the weekday greeting meteorologist astatine CBS2. A autochthonal of Chicagoland, Laura grew up successful Naperville. She is an Emmy-nominated meteorologist and holds her NWA Seal of Approval.
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