Currently in Chicago — June 22, 2023: 80s stick around.

Plus, Tropical Storm Bret approaches the Caribbean.

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Eric Holthaus & Tim McGill
June 21, 2023

The weather, currently.

80s stick around.

Takeaways for Chicago's weather:

1. Drought Drags On

2. At Least 80s For Highs

3. More Active Pattern Coming

Our drought drags on without any meaningful rain in sight. Partly to mostly sunny Thursday with highs in the lower 80s. Fantastic Friday with plenty of sunshine and highs hitting the middle 80s. Warmer this weekend with highs in the upper 80s and lower 90s. Some sunshine Saturday and some scattered showers and thunderstorms Saturday night and Sunday. Many dry hours Sunday with mostly cloudy skies most of the day. A few showers are possible Monday with highs in the lower 80s. Some welcome rain but not of the drought-busting variety. Cooler lakeside every day by at least 5 to 10 degrees.

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What you need to know, currently.

Tropical Storm Bret, the first named storm of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season to threaten land, is expected to pass through the Leeward Islands on Thursday, very close to Barbados.

Initially forecast to grow into the season’s first hurricane, Bret has struggled and should remain a mid-range tropical storm until it dissipates in a day or two in the Caribbean Sea. It should pose no severe threat to the islands besides the potential for some heavy rainfall.

This year’s list of storm names is a modified version of the same list used in 2005, 2011 and 2017. It’s one of the most notorious lists of the six lists in regular rotation with the names Dennis, Katrina, Rita, Stan, Wilma, Irene, Harvey, Irma, Maria, and Nate removed due to their outsized impact to protect the mental health of survivors.