First Alert Weather: Cooler evening, sunny weekend ahead
A second cool front moves across our area tonight bringing a slight shower/isolated storm chance.
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A second cool front moves across our area tonight bringing a slight shower/isolated storm chance.
A cold front will bring cool changes starting Friday.
The hottest day looks to be Wednesday as temperatures reach the upper 90s.
CBS 2 Chief Meteorologist Albert Ramon has the 5 p.m. forecast for Aug. 21, 2023.
Hilary was downgraded a few hours before landfall to a tropical storm as rain from the storm started spreading in Southern California, the National Weather Service said.
Dangerous heat is a concern on Wednesday and Thursday.
A brief round of hot weather today, then some relief before even hotter weather builds in for midweek.
There will be a break before more heat builds midweek.
The National Weather Service issued a Heat Advisory that will remain in effect until 8 p.m. Sunday.
CBS 2 Meteorologist Albert Ramon has the 5 p.m. forecast for Aug. 18, 2023.
It'll be hotter and more humid for Sunday, with highs in the low 90s. The humid air will make it feel like 100 degrees in many locations in the afternoon.
Humidity levels will remain low in the meantime with highs in the lower 80s.
CBS 2 Chief Meteorologist Albert Ramon has the 5 p.m. forecast for Aug. 17, 2023.
High waves and dangerous rip currents are likely.
According to CBS 2 Meteorologist Mary Kay Kleist, it will be breezy and wet along the boundary as it passes through our region.
Stubborn clouds and sprinkles will finally depart as skies clear tonight.
At the Golf Mill Shopping Center in Niles, some drivers found themselves in calf-deep cold water upon returning to their cars, while others found floodwaters coming up to the middle of their car doors.
Sunday night brings a few light showers or sprinkles.
Cooler temps will start the week before sunshine bring temperatures back into the 80s.
Scattered showers or storms will usher in slightly cooler temperatures to start the week.
Sunny skies are expected for Saturday afternoon with highs in the mid to upper 80s.
Thursday will feature morning sunshine, then turn partly cloudy in the afternoon.
Some sunshine for the first half of Wednesday, then increasing clouds by the early afternoon.
Scattered showers and isolated storm chances return Tuesday afternoon.
Rainfall amounts over the next 7 days will range from a half inch to more than an inch for areas southwest of Chicago.
A Lisle, Illinois, man was due in court Monday, accused of causing a deadly boat crash on the Fox River this past weekend.
A man is dead after police said he was hit by a speeding sport-utility vehicle in Chicago's Gage Park neighborhood Sunday night.
Sunday's weather had feels-like temperatures between 100 and 105 degrees, which had residents finding ways to keep cool.
Three people were killed and four others wounded in a shooting during a food festival at the Seattle Center near the Space Needle, police said. A suspect was in custody and another was being sought, they said.
A spokesperson for Metra said an inbound 720 train hit the victim at the crossing at Smith and Wood Streets, adjacent to the Palatine station.
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Police have arrested one suspect and are searching for another after a deadly shooting at a Seattle food festival Sunday night. Bradley Blackburn reports.
A Lisle, Illinois, man was due in court Monday, accused of causing a deadly boat crash on the Fox River this past weekend. Darius Johnson reports.
Four people are now dead after a police pursuit ended when a vehicle crashed into a train off Cicero Avenue on the Southwest Side.
A man is dead after police said he was hit by speeding sport-utility vehicle in Chicago’s Gage Park neighborhood Sunday night.
A Lisle, Illinois, man was due in court Monday, accused of causing a deadly boat crash on the Fox River this past weekend.
A man is dead after police said he was hit by a speeding sport-utility vehicle in Chicago's Gage Park neighborhood Sunday night.
Three people were killed and four others wounded in a shooting during a food festival at the Seattle Center near the Space Needle, police said. A suspect was in custody and another was being sought, they said.
Sunday's weather had feels-like temperatures between 100 and 105 degrees, which had residents finding ways to keep cool.
A spokesperson for Metra said an inbound 720 train hit the victim at the crossing at Smith and Wood Streets, adjacent to the Palatine station.
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Police say a man and a woman were last seen speaking with the victim before the shooting.
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Three people were killed and four others wounded in a shooting during a food festival at the Seattle Center near the Space Needle, police said. A suspect was in custody and another was being sought, they said.
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Two men and a woman were killed, and another woman was critically injured, when a vehicle hit a train during a police pursuit through Chicago's Southwest Side early Sunday morning.
A man was killed and a woman was wounded early Sunday morning in a shooting in the South Chicago community early Sunday.
