Happy Monday! After a GORGEOUS weekend I’ve got even more “good”** news: this week looks like a 10 out of 10. Summer will return (despite it being October) and temps later this week are expected to once again rise into the 70s to maybe even 80F under sunny skies! (**the “bad” news is that this is likely all fueled by a supercharged, climate change-driven El Nino).

First: Today begins cool and clear, and, despite sunny skies, temps will max out in the 60s under northerly flow. This is actually exactly “normal” for today’s date.

Sunny skies continue all week but things start heating back up tomorrow with 70s in forecast and maybe even an 80 degree reading on Weds! 

Some slight cooling is likely Thursday and Friday as the wind direction switches, but DON’T BE FOOLED, a surge of warmth returns this upcoming weekend. 

For summer lovers - this will likely be our Second Summer (or, the worse, racist term “Ind*an Summer”), but!-- for those of you running the marathon, it will be hell. A warm front may bring storms on Saturday as warm air pushes the thermometer into the low 80s! Sunday morning it likely to be muggy and warm with a low of 68 and a high of 81. An absolute disaster for the Chicago marathon :( 

Tl;dr - sunny all week. 60s today, 70s tomorrow, Weds. VERY WARM this weekend with 80s forecast for the marathon

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