Dangerously chilly air moved into the Chicago space early Sunday, with subzero wind chills anticipated to final via Wednesday.
A chilly climate advisory stays in impact via Monday throughout all of northern and central Illinois.
Monday and Tuesday morning are anticipated to be the coldest intervals of the stretch: Monday’s excessive shall be 10 and the low minus 6 levels; Tuesday will see a excessive of 5 and low of minus 1, in response to the Nationwide Climate Service. Wind chills may drop to minus 23 levels in downtown Chicago on Tuesday morning.
On Sunday night, temps at O’Hare Airport had dropped to zero with an anticipated low of minus 5 and wind chills of minus 15.
The Nationwide Climate Service encourages everybody to restrict out of doors time and canopy all uncovered pores and skin whereas outdoors, as there’s a excessive threat of hypothermia and folks may develop frostbite in lower than half-hour.
Amtrak has canceled some Chicago-area trains via Wednesday in anticipation of the chilly climate. Cancellations will be discovered on the rail system’s web site.
The chilly snap is predicted to proceed till Wednesday when temperatures rise into the low 20s.
[4:10 PM 1/19]
Newest 5-day forecast graphic:
Intermittent flurries anticipated Mon aftn & eve. Past chilly snap, we’ll lastly return to nearer to late January norms through subsequent wknd. Nonetheless, probabilities for some accumulating snow can even return within the Wed-Thu timeframe. #ILwx #INwx pic.twitter.com/Fbs3n4Cyo9— NWS Chicago (@NWSChicago) January 19, 2025
Chicago warming facilities
Town can have one warming middle open at Garfield Group Service Middle, 10 S. Kedzie Ave., from 8 a.m. to eight p.m. on Monday. All six of the town’s warming facilities shall be out there Tuesday via Friday between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
Advocates for the unhoused, well being organizations, different activists and officers, together with 9 alderpeople, signed a letter urging metropolis officers to broaden capability at warming facilities and hold them open 24 hours.
Different amenities, equivalent to libraries, additionally function warming facilities and generally have totally different or longer hours. The next facilities shall be open starting at 9 a.m. Tuesday:
- Garfield Group Service Middle
10 S. Kedzie Ave.
(312) 746-5400 - Englewood Group Service Middle
1140 W. 79th St
(312) 747-0200 - Martin Luther King Group Service Middle
4314 S. Cottage Grove
(312) 747-2300 - North Space Group Service Middle
845 W. Wilson Ave.
(312) 744-2580 - South Chicago Group Service Middle
8650 S. Business Ave.
(312) 747-0500 - Trina Davila Group Service Middle
4312 W. North Ave.
(312) 744-2014
Prepare dinner County will hold three courthouse warming facilities open constantly till Wednesday afternoon.
The Prepare dinner County places are:
- Skokie Courthouse: 5600 Previous Orchard Highway, Skokie
- Maywood Courthouse: 1500 Maybrook Drive, Maywood
- Markham Courthouse: 16501 S. Kedzie Ave., Markham
The Salvation Military’s Freedom Middle in Humboldt Park, 825 N. Christiana Ave., shall be open 24 hours as a warming shelter all through the week. The group additionally runs the 24-hour Shuttle of Hope, which works with the town’s 311 name middle to move folks to shelters.
[4:07 PM CST 1/19/2025] Listed below are our afternoon forecast graphics for the chilly snap. The primary graphic consists of chilly climate security (easy methods to costume correctly) & second graphic is a plot of our newest up to date minimal wind chill forecast tonight via early Wed. #ILwx #INwx (1/3) pic.twitter.com/tSdkofCftO
— NWS Chicago (@NWSChicago) January 19, 2025
Ideas for staying heat
Chicago’s Workplace of Emergency Administration and Communications has additionally supplied a number of ideas for folks to remain heat:
- Motorists ought to take further precautions to winterize autos and have obligatory provides whereas on the go. Have in mind, disabled autos or distracted driving may cause accidents, affect site visitors and impede responders heading to emergencies.
- Residents ought to know the indicators and care of frostbite and hypothermia. For winter preparation info go to, Chicago.gov/OEMC for particulars and hyperlinks to different native, state and federal sources.
- Keep away from pointless journeys outdoors. When going out, restrict the time open air.
- Put on a number of layers of free, heat garments.
- Hold head, palms and ft coated when open air.
- Keep dry as a result of moisture can scale back the insulation effectiveness of clothes.
- Pay further consideration to each day wants: get sufficient sleep, eat high-energy meals, drink heat drinks to maintain the physique heat and keep away from alcoholic drinks.
- Hold pets indoors as a lot as attainable throughout bitter, numbing chilly.
