Rain and possible storms return today

Happy Wednesday. Temperatures today are going to be quite a bit cooler than we were yesterday, reaching the mid-50s this afternoon. Right now it is 528 and we are still in the 30s and 40s, 44 at O'Hare and Midway, 43 at the lakefront. Upper 30s holding on in Aurora, Woodstock, Waukegan and LaSalle right now. But our day planner has clouds in place, not only this morning but this afternoon, which will bring the chance for scattered showers. Even by later this morning we have the chance for rain. Thunderstorms are possible as well. And with that, we could see some isolated areas with more moderate rainfall at times. So for today, talking about that thunderstorm risk, our storm predictions that our outlook has a general thunderstorm risk in that light green color, that marginal risk level one out of five in southern Jasper, Newton counties. You can see they're tagging Jasper, Newton counties where we could see a gustier thunderstorm. So here's your future cast taking you through your day. As mentioned, temperatures reaching the mid 50s as our high. Here's 1230. So lunchtime hour. And we're seeing the widespread scattered rain and a few rumbles of thunder by this evening. Things start to wind down, but then we get into tomorrow and lake effect rain is going to develop. So we could see this wobble to the west reaching Chicago during the especially first half of the day on Thursday. And as the day progresses, you can see most of that wet weather does shift into northwest Indiana. As we head into Thursday night, we're seeing some blue mixing in. We could see some snow as those temperatures drop down into the 30s. And unfortunately for northwest Indiana, that potential for lake effect wet weather is going to continue Friday, even into Saturday. 7-day forecast right around 43 is our high Friday, so we're just going down. This weekend, Saturday and Sunday, temperatures in the mid to upper 40s. And then next week, we start off with the upper 40s. So it is going to be a quiet weekend, but on the cooler side. I hope you have a great day today. Stay dry.