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Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Chicago/Romeoville, IL
156 PM CDT Fri Jun 13 2025

.KEY MESSAGES...

- Showers will continue across northeastern IL and northwestern
  IN through the overnight hours.

- Temperatures will increase this weekend and into next week,
  accompanied by increasing chances for showers and
  thunderstorms by midweek.

- Severe weather is possible next week, particularly Wednesday,
  with multiple rounds of thunderstorms possible Monday through
  Wednesday night.

&&

.DISCUSSION...
Issued at 156 PM CDT Fri Jun 13 2025

Through Saturday night:

Water vapor imagery depicts the center of an expansive vertically-
stacked low pressure system was located over Southern Missouri.
Regional radar imagery hints at several small-scale
perturbations (MCVs) within the broad circulation and trough
axis extending northeastward into the Lower Great Lakes, which
are responsible for the myriad of showers across the region this
afternoon. With the exception of a sliver of northwestern
Illinois, expansive cloud cover has marred diurnal temperature
rises today with most locations currently residing in the lower
70s. Perhaps more interesting is a stationary front draped
across northern Illinois and northwestern Indiana at press time,
which delineates the northern edge of a pool of humid air (dew
points in the upper 60s).

Over the next 12 to 18 hours, forecast guidance depicts the center
of the low moving east-northeastward toward southern Illinois.
As this occurs, the highest coverage of showers should similarly
shift east-northeastward and away from our area. With flow from
the surface to 20kft easing along the northern periphery of the
low, do have some concern that any lingering MCV could stall
within the seasonably moist airmass (PWATs near 2"). Should this
occur, a focused area of nearly stationary showers would be
prone to developing and pour over the same area overnight
contributing to a threat for flooding of fields and low-lying
areas (picture a wet rag getting wrung out). These types of
scenarios can be notoriously difficult to forecast and often
result in false alarms, but do have to mention there is subtle
support in a few select CAM runs. Given the inherent low
confidence in the forecast regime, opted to simply advertise
lingering chances for showers through the overnight hours across
much of the area in favor of letting the evening shift watch
trends. For most areas, however, the night should be
characterized by mostly cloudy skies and a few showers.

Tomorrow, the center of the low pressure system will meander
through southern Illinois and into central Indiana. Increasing
northeasterly flow on the northern side of the circulation
should transport a wedge of locally drier air from Lower
Michigan into our area, seemingly preventing any near-surface
based instability from developing. As a result, do favor a dry
forecast tomorrow accompanied by partly cloudy skies and highs
around 80 degrees. Tomorrow night looks similarly quiet as
short-wavelength ridging builds into the Great Lakes behind the
vertically-stacked low pressure system. A shortwave rounding
the crest of a building upper-level ridge in the central US may
encourage a cluster of storms to erupt and race through
Minnesota and Iowa overnight, though the orientation of the
instability axis should guide any remnants well west of our area
should they even survive that far.

Borchardt

Sunday through Friday:

Medium range models are in good agreement on a transition to a
more zonal flow across the U.S. early next week. An increasingly
moist and unstable air mass will build northward across Mississippi
Valley as southerly flow off the Gulf become established early
next week. Pattern looks favorable for a couple of MCSs to develop
along the southern flanks of the stronger flow aloft. These early
week MCSs will likely be ignited by low amplitude synoptic short
waves which are going to be difficult to predict timing/track of
at this distance, but our CWA certainly looks to be in the area
potentially affected by one or two of these convective clusters.

By Tuesday night into Wednesday, there is growing consensus among
the various medium range models and their respective ensembles
that a more amplified synoptic short wave trough will emerge over
the central Plains and track east into the mid-upper Mississippi
Valley. ECMWF and GFS both have a 50-60kt 500mb jet streak
associated with this trough which given the potential magnitude of
available instability is quite concerning. There are a lot of
mesoscale details that won`t be able to be resolved this far in
advance, the bigger picture synoptic pattern (as advertised by
latest guidance) looks quite favorable for potentially
significant severe weather event somewhere in the Midwest
Wednesday-Wednesday night. It is still 5 days out so there is
still plenty of time for guidance to reverse course and trend
weaker with this synoptic wave. There are also a lot of ways
prior convection could disrupt destabilization Wednesday. Bottom
line is that the Wednesday time frame will need to be closely
watched in coming days for the potential for severe weather either
in or near our CWA.

There is some signal that we could see some temporary ridging and
a break in the daily shower and thunderstorm chances in the wake
of that midweek system.

Temperatures will be a bit tricky next week. Generally, looks like
a warm to very warm and increasingly humid period with
temperatures warming well into the 80s and dewpoints climbing into
the lower 70s. However, convective debris or convective cold pools
could push the effect boundary farther south and disrupt the
warmth at times next week. Given the uncertainties, no changes
were made to NBM grids for next week. If convection doesn`t
disrupt warmth, then temps could even make a run at 90 next Tue
or Wed.

- Izzi

&&

.AVIATION /18Z TAFS THROUGH 00Z SUNDAY/...
Issued at 1204 AM CDT Fri Jun 13 2025

Showers continue to percolate as far north as an axis from DPA
to ORD as a slow-moving system meanders through the region.
Generally speaking, the highest coverage of showers is expected
to sink southeastward this evening, though confidence is lower
than average on exactly how fast this occurs. So, opted to
prevail -SHRA at all but RFD through this afternoon. Visibility
is expected to prevail between 3 and 6 miles in and between the
showers owing to the combination of falling rain and lingering
haze.

Tonight, current thinking is that all showers will be southeast
of the terminals. As column winds ease overnight, low clouds may
rapidly develop and expand across the area. Owing to the
unfavorable time of year for low clouds (very short nighttime
period), confidence in how expansive low clouds will form is
lower than average. For these reasons, will maintain the
inherited mention of FEW to SCT IFR cigs and prevail MVFR.
Trends will guide AMDs as the night goes on. Any low clouds
tomorrow morning should lift upward and scatter.

Winds will remain relatively light with a generally easterly
direction through the TAF.

Borchardt

&&

.LOT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
IL...None.
IN...None.
LM...None.

&&

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