Good morning. If today is your trash pick up day, know that when you return home from work or from tackling the days chores, your garbage cans may be in a location other than where you left them. An intense area of low pressure and a departing cold front have ushered in some healthy winds along with a dose of colder air. While today we can expect highs in the mid 60s, tomorrow we will struggle to reach 60 degrees. I'm forecasting a high of only 57 degrees tomorrow. Won't it be fun to talk about wind chills? (I say that tongue in cheek)...although I know there are some of you whom are excited about the thoughts of chilly air and that fall-like feelin'.
Here is a description and explanation of the wind advisory, which the National Weather Service has issued for us today.
Tracy
WIND ADVISORY...URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO/ROMEOVILLE IL
429 AM CDT MON SEP 28 2009
...STRONG WIND WILL OCCUR IN NORTHERN ILLINOIS AND NORTHWEST
INDIANA...
.AN INTENSE SURFACE LOW WILL MOVE FROM LAKE SUPERIOR TO QUEBEC
TODAY. THE WIND WILL BE STRONG AS THE CHANGE IN PRESSURE WITH
DISTANCE IS VERY LARGE WITH THIS LOW. THE COLDER AND DENSER AIR
WILL MOVE INTO NORTHEAST ILLINOIS TODAY.
ILZ003>006-011>014-020-022-INZ001-002-281730-
/O.NEW.KLOT.WI.Y.0009.090928T1500Z-090929T0000Z/
WINNEBAGO-BOONE-MCHENRY-LAKE IL-DE KALB-KANE-DUPAGE-COOK-KENDALL-
WILL-LAKE IN-PORTER-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ROCKFORD...BELVIDERE...WOODSTOCK...
WAUKEGAN...DEKALB...AURORA...WHEATON...CHICAGO...OSWEGO...
JOLIET...GARY...VALPARAISO
429 AM CDT MON SEP 28 2009
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM CDT
THIS EVENING...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHICAGO HAS ISSUED A WIND
ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM CDT
THIS EVENING.
THERE WILL BE A NORTHWEST WIND 25 TO 35 MPH WITH POSSIBLE GUSTS OF
50 MPH TODAY. THIS WILL OCCUR LATE MORNING AND AFTERNOON. THE AREA
AFFECTED BY THIS WIND WILL BE NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS...NORTHEAST
ILLINOIS AND NORTHWEST INDIANA. THE WIND WILL DECREASE IN SPEED
TONIGHT. THERE COULD BE SOME MINOR STRUCTURAL DAMAGE WITH A WIND
GUSTS OF 45 MPH OR GREATER
