A dose of winter may be heading Chicago’s way, sooner than usual.
National Weather Service meteorologist Gino Izzi says frigid temperatures from a storm that’s approaching Alaska could dip into the upper Midwest.
He says highs around Chicago from next Tuesday through Friday are expected to settle into the 30s. But he adds that it is possible highs could drop below freezing, with lows in the 20s and perhaps even the teens.
Izzi says such cold would be atypical of the norm this time of year in Chicago, where the high temperatures around now traditionally have been about 50. Conditions at or below freezing there typically don’t come until the last week of November. If that comes next week, he says it’d be the earliest it’s happened there since 1996.