There are both meteorological phenomena such as varying cloud layers that show up in different color/texture, as well as manmade features such as cooling ponds at nuclear plants and smoke plumes from industrial plants, that show up warmer than surrounding ground and clouds. weather.gov/chicago Friday looks to be another quiet day. After 27 of the past 38 days (71%) have been designated cloudy or mostly cloudy, and one week straight of cloudy days since last Tuesday, this recent view from the College of DuPage webcam in Glen Ellyn, IL is welcome to many! Some of these are likely to be severe through early evening, with wind the primary threat and hail a secondary threat. weather.gov/chicago More showers/storms may develop through ~ 1 a.m. Monday's event reminded us of the importance of being weather-ready and checking on the forecast. We confirmed an EF-0 tornado with peak winds of 80 mph touched down north of Kirkland, IL during the 8/10/2020 derecho event. Intermittent street closures may occur during this project. There will be scattered showers and storms across parts of northeast Illinois and northwestern Indiana through the evening before gradually shifting eastward out of the area overnight. Other pockets of enhanced straight-line wind damage likely happened outside the shading. weather.gov/chicago The temperatures difference between Lake Michigan and air about 5,000 ft above the ground is large enough to generate lake effect clouds this evening. West wind 5 to 10 mph becoming north northeast after midnight. The chance for storms is in the forecast for Saturday. A line of scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms is moving east southeast at about 20 to 25 mph. Mobile: mobile.weather.gov. AdChoices. A slight chance of showers. Be prepared with the most accurate 10-day forecast for Romeoville, IL with highs, lows, chance of precipitation from The Weather Channel and Weather.com Temperature falling to around 58 by 3pm. Send a message to US National Weather Service Chicago Illinois: Widely scattered showers and a few storms are expected today. Here's another way to visualize timing based on a forecast model. Damaging winds of 70-80 mph continued into Crest Hill. See those multiple twists ("vortices") within the larger area of spin? Breezy, with a south southwest wind 5 to 10 mph increasing to 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon. mobile.weather.gov, [December 11, 6 a.m.]: Light to moderate snow will continue to move across the area through 10-11 a.m. *ATTENTION beachgoers. mobile.weather.gov, Yesterday's snow accumulated in narrow 10-20 mile wide bands across the area! Isolated to widely scattered showers and thunderstorms are possible, mainly on Saturday afternoon. PC: weather.gov/Chicago (434). Further north, showers with embedded storms are expected up to I-80, while mainly just showers north of there. NOAA National Weather Service National Weather Service. weather.gov/chicago Get the weather forecast with today, tomorrow, and 10-day forecast graph.