Good morning and happy holidays! I am so sorry for the extended absence but I took a long-overdue vacation this week. But I’m back to help usher us in to 2026!

You’re waking up to a cold morning. The temp at O’Hare this morning is just 10 degrees with wind chills in the negatives. This winter has really been quite topsy turvy hasn’t it? Abrupt, bitterly cold start to winter on November 30; then a crazy warmup just in time to melt all the snow for Christmas, and now an arctic cold front that has pulled that chilly air back southward. 

Fortunately for us here in the Midwest, this week’s Arctic blast has it’s sights set on the eastern seaboard moreso than the midwest :) But that’s not to say that we don’t have a few chilly days in front of us.

Highs today will be cool, peaking only around 20F. The sun will likely get blotted out by high level clouds. Some snowflakes may fall this evening and overnight tonight but I don’t expect more than half an inch or so. Temps will remain in the 20s overnight and into tomorrow before once again plunging into the single digits on New Years Eve. 

It looks like we’re going to start 2026 off on the cool side with temps in the teens and 20s. More snow is possible on New Year’s morning but overall I don’t expect Chicago to pick up more than an inch or MAYBE 2 this week. 

Temps look to remain pretty “seasonable” (aka cold because January is cold but not UNUSUALLY cold) through the 10-day forecast period.

Tl;dr - chilly week, teens and 20s, w/ some snow possible tonight and again new year’s morning.

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