{"id":501777,"date":"2026-01-08T17:10:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T17:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/501777\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T17:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T17:10:17","slug":"storm-threat-near-chicago-area-thursday-night-with-high-winds-and-heavy-rainfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/501777\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm threat near Chicago area Thursday night with high winds and heavy rainfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A storm threat is ahead for the Chicago area on Thursday afternoon. Here&#8217;s what you can expect.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rain showers are expected between noon and 5 p.m. ahead of evening storms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/86dc1a35-24bc-43ad-815e-9fbe46ef2257.png#.png\" alt=\"86dc1a35-24bc-43ad-815e-9fbe46ef2257.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Stronger storms with heavy rainfall and gusty winds are expected between 6 p.m. and midnight. Rain totals could reach upwards of 2 inches.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The main storm threats include damaging winds and heavy rain leading to ponding, according to the National Weather Service.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Areas southwest of the city and in Northwest Indiana can expect a severe storm threat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A storm threat is ahead for the Chicago area on Thursday afternoon. Here&#8217;s what you can expect.\u00a0 Rain&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":501778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818,7925,8583,7160],"class_list":{"0":"post-501777","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois","11":"tag-storm","12":"tag-weather-blogs","13":"tag-weather-forecast"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115860591560848980","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501777","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=501777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}