{"id":242375,"date":"2025-09-20T21:41:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T21:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/242375\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T21:41:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T21:41:13","slug":"possible-thunderstorms-with-dangerous-lightning-localized-flooding-for-chicago-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/242375\/","title":{"rendered":"Possible thunderstorms with dangerous lightning, localized flooding for Chicago area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  Weekend showers and storms <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/522bec741127fcb28bc8e5ded9f8004b.png\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/video\/weekend-showers-and-storms\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>          Weekend showers and storms<\/p>\n<p>          02:35<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Chicago area Saturday evening could see possible thunderstorms, some of which could produce dangerous lightning and localized flooding.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/flash-flood-threat.png#.png\" alt=\"flash-flood-threat.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Thunderstorms with dangerous lightening lightening and localized flooding possbile for Chicago area Saturday evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Chicago<\/p>\n<p>Periods of storms are likely through the overnight hours, with many areas receiving soaking, beneficial rainfall.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Scattered storms continue Sunday morning, but the area dries out a bit in time for the Bears game Sunday afternoon. Fans at Soldier Field will have temperatures near 80 with a southerly wind, and rain chances dropping to 30%.<\/p>\n<p>More showers and thunderstorms to start the workweek<\/p>\n<p>Periods of showers and thunderstorms continue at times through the first official week of autumn as a trough in the jet stream lingers overhead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cooler, fall-like temperatures finally make an appearance with highs in the 70s through the week.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Weekend showers and storms Weekend showers and storms 02:35 The Chicago area Saturday evening could see possible thunderstorms,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":242376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,15048,5386,1818,7160],"class_list":{"0":"post-242375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-first-alert-weather","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois","12":"tag-weather-forecast"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115238803063665795","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242375","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=242375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}