{"id":450910,"date":"2025-12-16T12:38:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/450910\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T12:38:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:38:22","slug":"chicago-weather-brief-thaw-arrives-after-weeks-of-below-average-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/450910\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago weather: Brief thaw arrives after weeks of below-average cold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/s4kzknlnh7tpr1sp.jpg\" alt=\"Chicago weather: Tuesday morning forecast\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\"><strong>CHICAGO<\/strong> &#8211; Nineteen of the last 20 days have been colder than normal and today will likely be day 20 of 21. However, it is a different brand of cold with highs today likely to touch freezing or a little above.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   Chicago weather forecast <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WFLD\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-3646484b=\"\">What to expect:<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Skies will be mostly sunny. Tonight will be partly cloudy and not as cold. Low temperatures will be in the mid to upper 20s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Tomorrow we will get into the mid 30s with partly sunny skies as we begin a thaw for a couple of days. Cloud cover will increase tomorrow night ahead of a storm system which will bring rain by Thursday morning. Highs will reach the mid to upper 40s on Thursday, followed by a sharp drop in temperatures late in the day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Precipitation will be over by Thursday night as colder air drills in with lows in the teens. A one-day punch of colder air will be in place on Friday with highs in the upper 20s.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">The weekend looks pleasant with highs in the low 40s on Saturday and in the upper 30s on Sunday. Christmas week still looks to be warmer than normal with a chance that Christmas Day itself is in the 50s.<\/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-3646484b=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weather Forecast<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/chicago\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-3646484b=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-3646484b=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO &#8211; Nineteen of the last 20 days have been colder than normal and today will likely be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":450911,"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-450910","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\/115729290346418322","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450910","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=450910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}