Afternoon Briefing: Gloomy weather from Helene moves over Chicago

Good afternoon, Chicago.

Helene, the powerful storm that crashed into Florida late Thursday as a Category 4 hurricane, will deliver a gloomy weekend of weather to Chicagoland.

Chicago got its first taste of Helene last night when overcast skies moved in, said Kevin Doom, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Chicago office. Wind gusts resulting from Helene, which weakened to a tropical storm as it crawled inland over George, picked up in Chicagoland early today, Doom said.

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