{"id":123317,"date":"2025-08-06T10:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T10:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/123317\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T10:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T10:11:11","slug":"chicago-weather-air-quality-alert-issued-with-prolonged-wildfire-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/123317\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago weather: Air quality alert issued with prolonged wildfire smoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/B681F92FB2F8276401C0B81FAEDD969A.jpg\" alt=\"Chicago weather: Wednesday morning forecast\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-57dc2675=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\"><strong>CHICAGO<\/strong> &#8211; Wildfire smoke takes center stage again today with an air quality alert in place for Chicagoland.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Skies will feature hazy sun and it will be a few degrees warmer than yesterday. Highs should reach into the mid to upper 80s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Tonight will be clear to partly cloudy with some haze and lows in the upper 60s to low 70s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">A line of thunderstorms will approach from the northwest tomorrow morning but should be in a decaying mode with very little surviving into our area. The rest of Thursday will be mostly sunny and perhaps a bit less smoky with highs in the upper 80s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">On Friday and Saturday it will be downright hot with highs likely exceeding 90\u00b0 both days and a jump in humidity.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">On Sunday, there will be a chance of showers and thunderstorms, but most of the day will be dry with highs in the upper 80s to around 90.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Next week looks to feature above-average temperatures, continuing with no sign of cool weather anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> The information in this report came from FOX 32 Meteorologist Mike Caplan.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/weather\/weather-forecast\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weather Forecast<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/chicago\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO &#8211; Wildfire smoke takes center stage again today with an air quality alert in place for Chicagoland.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":123318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5404,5386,1818,50,68,313,7160],"class_list":{"0":"post-123317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-cook-county","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-weather","15":"tag-weather-forecast"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114981286847231259","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}