CITYWIDE — Chicagoans might be in retailer for an additional spherical of icy climate Saturday, with drier circumstances anticipated for Tremendous Bowl Sunday.
Jake Petr, meteorologist for the Nationwide Climate Service in Chicago, mentioned that Saturday’s wintry climate gained’t precisely seem like the system that blanketed elements of town with ice earlier this week, inflicting quite a few site visitors collisions and falls on slippery surfaces. However it is going to be sufficient to warrant warning when stepping outdoors through the day.
“Ice is ice,” Petr mentioned. “So even when there’s only a slight glaze, that’s sufficient to trigger hazards for journey circumstances — particularly on any untreated surfaces.”
As of Friday afternoon, the Nationwide Climate Service was calling for a mixture of snow, freezing drizzle and doable rain to go to town starting late Saturday morning and persevering with into mid-afternoon.
Chicago meteorologists are additionally watching a sequence of snowy methods anticipated to creep throughout the area subsequent week, however Petr mentioned Friday that it was not but clear whether or not they would cross instantly over the world.
Saturday’s anticipated slick circumstances can be a sequel to midweek precipitation that turned neighborhoods throughout town into ice rinks and created harmful driving circumstances. CBS Chicago reported that residents made 283 requests to 311 for ice and snow removing throughout town Thursday morning. Ice-related accidents in the meantime crammed each obtainable room at UChicago Drugs Creation Well being in LaGrange, with some sufferers struggling sprains and dislocations, CBS Chicago reported.
Saturday’s forecast requires highs within the mid-30s with lows between 17-24 levels. Sunday can be cooler, but additionally drier, with cloudy circumstances and highs between 27-33 levels and lows between 11-19.
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