Strong wind warning affects the cloudy, warm day before the cooldown – NBC Chicago

The celebrations for St. Patrick's Day take place here in Chicago, but those who take part in the Chicago River on Saturday morning should be prepared for extremely gusty winds that have passed storms overnight.

A strong wind warning officially comes into force for the Chicago region at 7 a.m., which has remained until 12 p.m. if there is further wind advice until 5 p.m. this afternoon.

After the almost record high temperatures on Friday, the daytime temperatures remain well above average on Saturday, with the heights to the low to middle 60s.

While the temperatures in the low 60s are likely to remain stable, winds are the main element to prepare for when you spend time outdoors on Saturday.

For the duration of the strong wind warning, which covers the start time from 10 a.m. of the color of Chicago, gusts of up to 60 miles per hour are expected, with persistent winds between 25 and 35 miles per hour.

On Saturday at 7:15 a.m., almost 7,900 comed customers in Illinois remained without electricity, although many of the failures are north and west of the Chicago region.

Within the region, many of the remaining failures concentrate on Kane County and the surrounding western suburbs, with hundreds of failures on the north coast in Lake County.

Although the strong wind warning will run at 12 noon, the gusty conditions are expected to continue, whereby the gust of wind is expected of up to 50 miles per hour during the wind counseling this afternoon.

The afternoon wind counseling coincides with the Chicago St. Patrick's Day Parade, which is supposed to climb into the city center at 12 p.m.

While strong winds and above -average temperatures dominate a large part of the Saturday, there is a significant but brief cooldown to the dangerous winds in the Chicago region.

Rain showers are likely to develop on Saturday evening, which is expected to handle the snow on Sunday morning.

The mercury is expected to fall into the low 30s and cold enough conditions for the snow accumulation on grass and increased surfaces.

The sky will probably clarify on Sunday afternoon, but it is not expected that the heights exceed the low 40s, since northwestern winds of up to 25 miles are possible.

The temperature erar trauma continues in the next week, and the heights in the mid-50s on Monday and mid to the 1960s to Tuesday.