A REAL-TIME CHECK OF THE

WEATHER NOW WITH A LIVE LOOK

OUTSIDE, THE SKYLIGHT THERE,

METEOROLOGIST MARY KAY KLEIST

IS HERE TRACKING A BIG WARM-UP

ON THE WAY FOR US.

NOT QUITE YET, BUT ON THE

WEEKEND QUITE A TREAT COMING

YOUR WAY.

22 DEGREES IS WHERE WE STAND,

WE ONLY MADE IT TO 24.

I WANTED TO SEE THIS BECAUSE

OUR NORMAL HIGH IS 37 DEGREES.

WE WERE WAY OFF TODAY.

IN FACT RIGHT NOW IT FEELS LIKE

14 DEGREES.

IF YOU HAVE EVENING PLANS AND

SKIES WILL BE CLEAR, WINDS

START TO RELAX AS WELL BUT THE

TEMPERATURE WILL BE CALLED COME

INTO THE MIDTEENS BY 11 O'CLOCK

TONIGHT AND IN FACT RIGHT NOW

WE ARE AT 70 DEGREES IN DeKALB,

THAT WILL BE ONE PLACE WHERE

THE READINGS FALL TO ABOUT 10

AND FOUR BY 10 AM AND PROBABLY

SINGLE DIGITS FOR MORNING LOWS.

AS WE GO INTO NORTHWEST INDIANA

THAT'S WHERE LOWS WILL BE IN

THE TEENS AND THE MOST FAR FROM

LOW GARY TO RENSSELAER AND IN

THE LAPORTE, BUT 11th IN THE

KEEGAN AND THEN ABOVE IN AURORA.

TODAY WE HAD SOME CLOUDS AND

FLURRIES IN NORTHWEST INDIANA

AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN

BECAUSE OF THE NORTHWESTERLY

WIND COMPONENT, BUT THAT KEEPS

PULLING IN THE DRYER AIR AND

THAT CLEARED OUT THE SKIES ON

THE ILLINOIS SIDE, ALLOWING FOR

A LOT OF SUNSHINE.

AS WE GOT IN THE MORNING HOURS

TOMORROW WE WILL HAVE A BRIGHT

START. WINDS START CHURNING AND

THEY START EARNING MORE

SOUTHWESTERLY DURING THE DAY

AND THAT TAKES TEMPERATURES

BACK TO WHERE THEY SHOULD BE

THIS TIME OF YEAR FOR THE

AFTERNOON.

BUT NOTICE, NO CLOUDS, NO RAIN,

NO SNOW IN YOUR FRIDAY

FORECAST.

IT'S LOOKING QUITE NICE,

DOMINATED BY SUNSHINE AS THOSE

WINDS START TO PICK UP OUT OF

THE SOUTHWEST.

THAT IS SIGNIFICANT, BECAUSE

THAT IS HOW WE SET UP THE

WARMING FOR THE WEEKEND.

IN THE MORNING ON FRIDAY IT

LOOKS LIKE CLOSER TO THE

WISCONSIN STATE LINE, THAT'S

WHERE THE WINDS WILL BE

STRONGEST OR THE COURSE OF THE

DAY.

THEN AS WE GO THROUGH THE DAY

COULD LOOK AT THE SOUTHWESTERLY

WINDS PICK UP, EVEN THROUGH

SUNSET AND IN THE EVENING HOURS.

IF YOU ARE GOING OUT FRIDAY

NIGHT WE WILL HAVE 30 TO 35

MILE-PER-HOUR WIND GUSTS IN

SOME SPOTS CLOSER TO THE NORTH

AND NORTHWEST SUBURBS.

BUT THE WINSLOW KEEPS PULLING

IN THE MILDER AIR. SO HIGHS

TOMORROW SHOULD REACH 40 IN

JOLIET, PROBABLY 38 AT THE

AIRPORT, 37 AND RENSSELAER IN

ABOUT 39 DEGREES FOR US.

THEN WE PROCEED ALL THE WAY TO

47 SATURDAY AS WE KEEP THE

SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS GOING AND

NOTHING BUT SUNSHINE IN THE

FORECAST.

EVEN WHEN WE LOOK AT OUR RADAR

TRACKER, LOOK AT SUNDAY STILL

DRY, HIGH-PRESSURE IN PLACE, A

LOT OF SUNSHINE TO START THE

DAY.

THEN OUR NEXT SYSTEM PULLS FROM

THE FOUR CORNERS REGION AND

STARTS MOVING ACROSS THE

COUNTRY, MAKING US WET ON

MONDAY MORNING.

TEMPERATURES ON MONDAY WILL

STILL BE IN THE 40s.

I THINK WE WILL HAVE MOSTLY

RAIN AND MAYBE SOME SNOW

SHOWERS AS A PULLS AWAY FOR US

ON TUESDAY.

THAT'S WHY WE GET A LITTLE BIT

OF SLOPPY STAFF LATE FROM BACK

OUR SUNDAY WITH LIGHT RAIN

LEADING IN EARLY NEXT WEEK.

BUT LET'S NOT FOCUS ON THAT,