Currently in Chicago — June 1st, 2023

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Eric Holthaus & Tim McGill
May 31, 2023

Warm and sunny start to June.

The weather, currently.

Takeaways for Chicago's weather:

1. “Heat Wave” Rolls On

2. Slight Chance Of a Spotty Storm

3. Keeping It Cooler Lakeside

June starts off with mainly sunny skies and a small chance for a spotty afternoon shower or thunderstorm as highs hit the upper 80s. Those highs are 10 to 15 degrees above average. Mostly sunny Friday with highs again in the upper 80s. Plenty of weekend sunshine and a few degrees cooler. Middle 80s for highs Saturday and lower 80s for highs on Sunday. Highs drop to the upper 70s to near 80 for Monday and Tuesday. Cooler lakeside every day by at least 5 to 10 degrees.

What you need to know, currently.

Today is the first day of Atlantic hurricane season, and also the first day of meteorological summer. After a few years of wild weather, we could really use a break.

Unfortunately, the atmosphere and oceans aren’t cooperating so far.

The National Hurricane Center has named an area of disturbed weather in the Gulf of Mexico “Invest 91L”, weather nerd speak for something that deserves closer attention by high resolution weather models to assess its chances for development into a full-fledged tropical storm or hurricane. Right now there’s just a 20% chance of that happening, so that’s good at least.

For the season as a whole, NOAA expects a near-normal season, with about 12-17 named storms, 5-9 hurricanes, and 1-4 major hurricanes.

-Eric Holthaus

What you can do, currently.

Welcome to the new-and-improved Currently!

As you might notice, the formatting and delivery of our daily newsletters has changed slightly — we’ve migrated service providers from Ghost to beehiiv so that we can bring you all the features we’ve been working for the past two years to prepare (and more!!)

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Thank you for taking this exciting journey with us!

—Eric Holthaus