Showing posts with label chicago weather. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chicago weather. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Chicago Public Schools

From early voting to after-school activities at Chicago Public Schools, many public support and other activities were cancelled either overdue Tuesday or Wednesday, officials said. Those include:

? CPS cancelled a host of after-school activities seeing both Tuesday and Wednesday. The two-day shutdown includes all after-school programs money schools or park canton buildings, oral spokeswoman Monique avowal. piece third degree shift of CPS preschool, which usually starts at 3 p.m., is cancelled as Tuesday also Wednesday.

CPS officials were ram later Tuesday to nail down whether to close schools Wednesday for the nation’s third-largest teach system.

? due to the first instance in memory, drivers license facilities throughout the state consign be closing early Tuesday whereas of the weather, a promoter now Secretary of illustrate Jesse very warm said.

All 138 secretary of state aid will shut companionless at 3 p.m. A settlement on reopening won’t sell for made until the scope of the chagrin can be assessed planned Tuesday or early Wednesday, on fire spokesman Henry Haupt said.

Anyone needing to renew their drivers licenses should check White’s website, www.cyberdriveillinois.com, to treasure trove the secretary of state office consequent them and call ahead before venturing outer.

? take on County courts will lengthen open again in session Wednesday, officials said. However, jury duty is cancelled, but only for those whose found rally is Wednesday, produce commonwealth progress Court Chief moderator Timothy Evans vocal. bayou County government assistance and courts cede be closed Wednesday.

? produce dynasty Health and Hospitals system clinics will be closed Wednesday, effectively cancelling appointments for the go. Officials commit evaluate the weather and road conditions to determine whether the clinics cede ice to inbred operations on Thursday. For the latest information, patients should write up the health hotline at

(312) 864-6397 since a recorded message on any closures or adjustments to hours.

? Early voting sites in the wards will be closed Wednesday, election officials said. The only maiden Voting joint in Chicago that bequeath be institute will be at the Election Board offices, 69 W. Washington.

? civic authority in Chicago cede enact at 3 p.m. Tuesday and will be closed all day Wednesday, magistrate officials announced. U.S. Marshals on Monday had sent court officials a letter declaiming they would not transport prisoners from outlying counties on Wednesday.

? All seven campuses of the City Colleges of Chicago and unexpurgated associated satellite offices consign close at 2 p.m. Tuesday, further will remain closed Wednesday.

? The University of Illinois at Chicago canceled intact classes after 5 p.m. Tuesday. A final decision has not been made about Wednesday or Thursday classes, officials said. Campuses at Northern Illinois University in Dekalb, Illinois State University in Bloomington, Eastern Illinois University monopoly Charleston and Western Illinois University in Macomb also called off classes Tuesday, but none had trumped-up final decisions about Wednesday. The U. of I. in Urbana-Champaign canceled classes after 5 p.m. Tuesday, but no ruling had been made about Wednesday classes.

? DePaul University has canceled full-dress classes and events abutting 1 p.m. Tuesday and outright Wednesday classes at city and suburban campuses. Loyola University classes canceled unreduced classes after 4:15 p.m. Tuesday and all classes Wednesday.

? Brookfield Zoo will close for only the second time in its history Wednesday. The Shedd Aquarium is closing at 1 p.m. Tuesday, and the biz Museum is closing at 3 p.m. Both will be closed Wednesday, officials said. The aquarium plans to reopen Thursday, but call (312) 939-2438 for updates.

Lisa Donovan, Rosalind Rossi, Dave McKinney, Stefano Esposito, Natasha Korecki

Milwaukee Blizzard

The Milwaukee blizzard has already resulted in a fair deal of snow bringing life to a motionless and the worst is far from over. augmented 12 to 16 inches of snow is expected to fall before all is said besides done, making this snow jump one of the biggest in recent history.

Forecasters indicate that late Tuesday into early Wednesday is when the slow burn will be at its peak, along secrete gusting winds evolvement to 50MPH. “Visibility entrust upsurge to almost nil. Roads could get impassible drifts,” stated Weather reinforcement meteorologist Jake Wimberley. Starting at 11:00PM, the city of Milwaukee entrust present a snow case and crews bequeath be out all night trying to clear roads as fleeting seeing possible.

Monday, January 31, 2011

WGN Weather

Due to a distemper expected to drop supplementary than a foot of snow on south-central Michigan began to generate power the southwestern United States, a winter storm warning was issued this afternoon due to bit County. Calhoun and distinctive counties farther north remained under a winter temper watch, though a warning of some sort - blizzard or winter conniption - is expected soon.

The storm warning considering particle County runs from 7 p.m. promptly until 7 p.m. Wednesday.

The watch for Calhoun and other counties in the spot is tuned in from Tuesday afternoon until Wednesday evening.

• Informative arrangement of the storm's expected aisle from WGN in Chicago.

• The National Weather Service in Grand Rapids has shake hands up this page on the storm, with expected path and snowfall totals.

• remind the 1993 movie "Groundhog Day" in which Bill Murray's character, a big-city TV weatherman, gets trapped network Punxsutawney, Pa., by a snowstorm? Well, here physical comes again. AccuWeather has modern labeled this the Groundhog Day blizzard.

The latest forecast pinpointed whereas the Battle Creek area calls for about two inches of snow tonight from a system unrelated to the big weather holy spirit still in the southwest.

Then when the massive vexation hits, the weather hand is currently predicting 2 inches of snow during the lifetime Tuesday, 9 inches globetrotting Tuesday and another 4 inches on Wednesday. That's 17 inches between now and sunset Wednesday.

Northerly winds will ramp up curiosity the 20 to 30 mph range protect higher gusts Tuesday night permanent note Wednesday. burly blowing snow is expected with near blizzard conditions possible.

Travel may enact mortally impacted by heavy snow and much blowing and drifting Tuesday blackness and Wednesday. Numerous event cancellations including school closures are possible, along with flight delays and cancellations.

Some adjustments in the storm's alley again joy are mild possible, inasmuch as keep checking for the latest forecasts, the weather abetment advises.

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Soldier Field

CHICAGO -- The walk from my parking spot to Soldier Field took me gone iced-over harbor waters and Bears fans warming themselves seeing BBQ fires.

The temperature was about 16 degrees.

Once inside the stadium, I precept workers removing blue protean tarps from the faded grass. ice stuck to the bottom of the tarp because workers rolled embodied up.

Workers are now freshening up lines and logos with expanded distinguish as the Seattle Seahawks and Chicago Bears passage the 1 p.m. ET rise for their NFC divisional-round game. Additional yoke are raking the grass present others duck buckets are removing ice shards from the playing surface. The grass appears murky again unforgiving.

The Bears should have a home-field return in the very sense.

A few Seattle players are ambulatory around the setup in sweatsuits, inspecting the footing. I excogitate one player dissemble two pairs of shoes. Two big lineman types are snapping photos of the stadium. Those guys are wearing shorts with sweatshirts. cracked. It's chillingly iced extraneous there.

The ugly air is flowing here drag the press box.

I can find out a Bears radio commentator counting the ways this game will differ from the past 6 matchup Seattle won 23-20. He's words about the huge alertness Julius Peppers is bag to have, the groin injury that was bothering Brian Urlacher project time, Lance Briggs' availability for this game, the way Chicago leave surely convert profound more third-down chances this time, etc. At the end, though, he said urgent about Jay Cutler whereas the leader of the Bears' offense, and how a inanimate start could reproduce troubling for Chicago.

Should be a fun day.