Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Dense fog likely, slick spots possible during the morning commute

From one travel headache to another... A Dense Fog Advisory continues for all of northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin until 10AM...

Up until this advisory expires, visibility will fluctuate, likely falling to a 1/4 mile or less. 

If you plan to be out on the roads, be sure to give yourself extra time for travel and increase the distance between you and other cars. It's also important to remember to travel through dense fog with your low beams - never your brights. 

The first of two systems will be passing through this morning, bringing the chance for scattered light rain into the mid-day hours. 

At the start, temperatures will be above freezing. However, there could be a spot or two where the air temperature drops to 31 or 32 degrees. If so, this will provide a small opportunity for freezing drizzle or rain before precipitation transitions back to regular rain by the mid-morning hours.

Once rain tapers off, we'll be left under a mostly cloudy sky with temperatures in the upper 30s. As for tonight, same story, different night. 

Clouds hang tight, with fog once again becoming a possibility ahead of Thursday's morning commute. So we'll have to see if the fog will become dense enough for another round of dense fog advisories. 

The stronger of the two systems slides to our east tomorrow, bringing with it a more widespread round of rain during the afternoon and evening. Again, plan on giving yourself extra time for the morning commute while also making sure to take the umbrella with you. Rain will remain likely overnight Thursday into daybreak Friday. Temperatures both Thursday and Friday look to peak in the upper 30s, staying in the upper 30s into the weekend.

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