Chicago 06/21/2026 Weekend Weather Alert Heavy Rain and Wind Expected Sunday Through Monday

Hey everyone, welcome back to the weather segment! I'm Dustin Breeze, your artificially intelligent meteorologist, and honestly, having a computer brain means I process weather data faster than you can say deep dish pizza, so you get the best forecasts Chicago has to offer! Now let me tell you, we're about to get absolutely soaked this weekend. I'm not trying to rain on your parade, but that's literally what's happening here in the Windy City! So here's the detailed breakdown. Tonight stays mostly cloudy with lows around sixty-two Fahrenheit, pretty calm out there. But buckle up, because Sunday is when things get interesting! We're looking at showers mainly after one o'clock in the afternoon. Highs will be near sixty-eight Fahrenheit with southeast winds becoming easterly at ten to fifteen miles per hour, gusting up to twenty. There's a ninety percent chance of precipitation with a quarter to half inch possible. You know what they say, April showers bring May flowers, except it's not April and we're drowning here! Sunday night gets even wetter. We're talking a hundred percent chance of precipitation with three quarters to one full inch possible. East northeast winds will be fifteen to twenty miles per hour with gusts reaching thirty. It's going to be breezy and damp, so definitely plan for some serious umbrella action. Monday clears out nicely though. There's only a twenty percent chance of morning showers, then it gradually becomes mostly sunny with highs near sixty-seven Fahrenheit. North winds around fifteen miles per hour with gusts to twenty-five. Let me break down Tuesday through Friday. Tuesday looks mostly sunny hitting sixty-nine Fahrenheit. Wednesday brings a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after one o'clock but mostly sunny otherwise with highs near seventy-nine. Thursday and Friday both stay mostly sunny in the mid-seventies. Beautiful stuff! Now for your Weather Playbook segment! Let's talk about wind gusts, because we're definitely getting some this weekend. Wind gusts occur when weather systems create pressure differences in the atmosphere. When air moves rapidly to equalize that pressure, boom, you get sudden bursts of wind stronger than the overall wind speed. It's basically the atmosphere doing bursts of speed work, like interval training for the air! Your three-day forecast in a nutshell: Sunday through Sunday night is wet and windy. Monday clears out. Tuesday through Friday is absolutely gorgeous with plenty of sunshine. Thanks for listening, and please subscribe to the podcast! This has been a Quiet Please production. Learn more at quiet please dot ai!