A sunny day with a high near 83 degrees is in store for the city of Chicago on Monday. “It’s definitely on the unseasonably warm side,” said Zachary Yack, a National Weather Service meteorologist. But Monday’s high probably won’t break records. The hottest Oct. 21 in Chicago history was in 1953, when a high of 87 was recorded. On the hottest October day in Chicago ever — Oct. 6, 1963 — the mercury peaked at 94 degrees.
Hurricane Oscar made landfall early Sunday in the southeastern Bahamas and was heading toward Cuba, an island recently beleaguered by a massive power outage.
National Weather Service officials are expecting the season’s first frost to hit the area overnight Tuesday following a day of showers and possible thunderstorms near Lake Michigan.
Beecher, Crete, Flossmoor, Lansing, Markham, Sauk Village and South Holland firefighters went to Florida to assist hurricane cleanup.
At least eight people were dead, but many expressed relief that Hurricane Milton wasn’t worse.
The fabric roof over the Tampa Bay Rays stadium was shredded after Hurricane Milton came ashore in Florida on Wednesday.
Hurricane Milton barreled into the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday after plowing across Florida as a Category 3 storm, pounding cities with ferocious winds and rain, whipping up a barrage of tornadoes and causing an unknown numbers of deaths.
Dave Richardson was not going to miss the Chicago Marathon. When the news began to warn of the advance of Hurricane Milton toward Florida, where Richardson and his wife Stephanie live just a few miles outside of Fort Lauderdale, the couple decided to move up their flight to Chicago by four days. Now, they’re staying […]
When Grace Klein made the decision to evacuate from her Tampa home as the powerful Hurricane Milton barreled toward Florida, she only had about an hour to get ready for the airport. The city was basically in “full panic” by that point on Monday, the 25-year-old said. Police cars cruised the streets with their sirens on, warning people through speakers to evacuate. Roads and bridges began shutting down near her apartment, and gas was running out at stations. With the airport set to close in the morning, Klein packed a carry-on and her gray cat, Gigi, and booked a $800 […]
With its mighty strength and its dangerous path, Hurricane Milton has powered into a very rare threat that is flirting with experts’ worst fears.