741  
FXUS63 KLOT 311123  
AFDLOT  
 
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION  
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO/ROMEOVILLE, IL  
623 AM CDT MON MAR 31 2025  
   
KEY MESSAGES
 
 
- POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE TUESDAY NIGHT AND ON  
WEDNESDAY ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE LOCALIZED  
FLOODING.  
 

 
   
DISCUSSION
 
 
ISSUED AT 235 AM CDT MON MAR 31 2025  
 
THROUGH TUESDAY:  
 
TEMPERATURES CONTINUE TO DROP EARLY THIS MORNING AS THE LOW  
PRESSURE SYSTEM RESPONSIBLE FOR YESTERDAY'S SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS  
CONTINUES TO PUSH OFF TO THE NORTHEAST. ANY LINGERING LIGHT  
RAIN AND SNOW ACROSS FAR NORTHEAST IL/NORTHWEST IN SHOULD COME  
TO AN END TOWARD DAYBREAK WITH NO SNOW ACCUMULATION EXPECTED.  
TEMPERATURES TOWARD THE WI/IL STATELINE WILL DROP TO NEAR OR  
JUST BELOW FREEZING EARLY THIS MORNING. WHILE CONTINUED STEADY  
NORTHWESTERLY BREEZES SHOULD HELP DRY THINGS OFF, A FEW SLICKS  
SPOTS CAN'T BE RULED ON ELEVATED SURFACES.  
 
AFTER A CHILLY START TO THE MORNING, CONTINUED NORTHERLY COLD  
ADVECTION SHOULD HOLD HIGH TEMPERATURES MAINLY IN THE 40S THIS  
AFTERNOON FOR MOST AREAS. WITH THE EXCEPTION BEING DOWNSTREAM OF  
THE LAKE IN NORTHWEST INDIANA WHERE HIGHS MAY STRUGGLE TO WARM  
ABOVE THE UPPER 30S. LOWER 50S WILL BE POSSIBLE TOWARD  
WESTERN/CENTRAL ILLINOIS WHERE DEEPER MIXING AND EARLIER  
CLEARING OF CLOUDS IS EXPECTED.  
 
A SURFACE RIDGE AXIS WILL MOVE OVERHEAD TONIGHT ALLOWING WINDS  
TO FLOP EASTERLY IN THE EVENING (LIKELY EARLIER NEAR THE LAKE  
BEHIND A LAKE BREEZE) ALONG WITH LEADING TO ANOTHER COLD NIGHT  
WITH LOW TEMPERATURES IN THE UPPER 20S TO LOWER 30S. CONTINUED  
EAST TO SOUTHEASTERLY FLOW DURING THE DAY ON TUESDAY WILL LEAD  
TO CONTINUED COOLER CONDITIONS ACROSS NORTHEAST ILLINOIS  
DOWNSTREAM OF LAKE MICHIGAN, WHERE HIGHS MAY ONLY TOP OUT IN THE  
LOWER 40S. MID 40S TO LOWER 50S ARE FORECAST GENERALLY SOUTH OF  
I-90.  
 
TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY:  
 
PRIMARY FORECAST CONCERN IS FOR THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE STORMS  
LATE TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY.  
 
A NARROW AXIS OF PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP EARLY  
TUESDAY EVENING ACROSS FAR NORTHERN IL AND INTO SOUTHERN WI.  
THERMALLY, IT WILL STILL BE COLD ENOUGH THAT THIS PRECIP MAY BE  
IN THE FORM OF A RAIN/SNOW MIX, AT LEAST BRIEFLY, BEFORE  
CHANGING TO RAIN AND/OR LIFTING NORTH OF THE STATE LINE. HAVE  
MAINTAINED A RAIN/SNOW MIX FOR THIS SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. BASED  
ON CURRENT TRENDS, NOT EXPECTING ANY ACCUMULATION.  
 
ATTENTION WILL THEN QUICKLY TURN TO EXPECTED DEVELOPING  
CONVECTION OVER IA TUESDAY EVENING THAT WILL LIKELY SPREAD INTO  
NORTHERN IL AFTER MIDNIGHT WITH ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS MOVING  
ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH THE PREDAWN HOURS. NEW SPC DAY2 IS VERY  
SIMILAR TO THE PREVIOUS DAY3 WITH A SLIGHT RISK (2 OF 5) ACROSS  
THE WESTERN CWA. MAIN SEVERE THREAT IS EXPECTED TO BE HAIL, BUT  
IF STORMS END UP WITH ANY ORGANIZATION, THEN SOME WIND POTENTIAL  
WOULD BE POSSIBLE. AS THE LOW LEVEL JET INCREASES, THERE COULD  
BE A FEW WAVES OF THUNDERSTORMS AND WITH PRECIPITABLE WATER  
VALUES APPROACHING 1 TO 1.25 INCHES BY 12Z WEDNESDAY, HEAVY RAIN  
AND LOCALIZED FLOODING WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE.  
 
HOW THIS ACTIVITY EVOLVES EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING WILL THEN  
AFFECT THE EVOLUTION FOR POTENTIAL SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ON  
WEDNESDAY. MORE WIDESPREAD CONVECTION THAT TAKES LONGER TO END  
WEDNESDAY MORNING COULD PUSH THE EFFECTIVE FRONT EAST ENOUGH  
THAT NEW THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON MAY ONLY  
BE ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST CWA AND MOST MODEL TRENDS WOULD SUPPORT  
THIS SOLUTION AT THIS TIME. SHOULD OVERNIGHT CONVECTION NOT BE  
AS WIDESPREAD AND/OR END EARLIER, THIS MAY ALLOW NEW STORMS TO  
DEVELOP FURTHER WEST, PERHAPS RIGHT OVER THE CWA BEFORE THEY  
RACE OFF TO THE EAST.  
 
STILL QUITE A BIT OF UNCERTAINTY FOR THE END OF THE WEEK INTO  
THE WEEKEND. THE MODELS AND THEIR ENSEMBLES ARE STILL SHOWING  
QUITE A BIT OF SPREAD IN POSSIBILITIES. THE ECMWF SEEMS TO BE  
TRENDING WETTER WHILE THE GFS SEEMS TO BE TRENDING DRIER. NO  
CHANGES TO THE BLENDED GUIDANCE, WHICH TRENDED CONSIDERABLY  
WETTER THIS RUN WITH CHANCE POPS FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY  
NIGHT. MODELS HAVE ALSO BEEN SHOWING A COLDER PATTERN SHIFT FOR  
EARLY NEXT WEEK AND LARGELY STILL SHOW THAT, THOUGH LARGE TIMING  
DIFFERENCES BASED ON HOW THE LATE WEEK/WEEKEND RAIN PANS OUT.  
CMS  
 

 
   
AVIATION /12Z TAFS THROUGH 18Z TUESDAY/
 
 
ISSUED AT 623 AM CDT MON MAR 31 2025  
 
FORECAST CONCERNS INCLUDE...  
 
MVFR CIGS THROUGH EARLY THIS AFTERNOON.  
LAKE BREEZE/WIND SHIFT TO NORTHEAST LATE THIS AFTERNOON.  
 
MVFR CIGS WILL SLOWLY SCATTER OUT FROM NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST  
STARTING LATE THIS MORNING THROUGH MID AFTERNOON. THERE MAY BE A  
FEW FLURRIES OR SPRINKLES FOR THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO, BUT WILL NOT  
HAVE ANY MENTION WITH THIS FORECAST.  
 
NORTH/NORTHWEST WINDS WILL REMAIN IN THE 10-15KT RANGE INTO  
THIS AFTERNOON WITH A FEW GUSTS POSSIBLE TO 20KT THIS MORNING.  
WINDS WILL SHIFT TO THE NORTHEAST LATE THIS AFTERNOON FOR THE  
CHICAGO TERMINALS AS A LAKE BREEZE MOVES INLAND. WINDS WILL TURN  
LIGHT EASTERLY ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA THIS EVENING AND THEN  
SOUTHEASTERLY TUESDAY MORNING. CMS  
 

 
   
LOT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES
 
 
IL...NONE.  
IN...NONE.  
LM...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY UNTIL 4 AM CDT TUESDAY FOR THE IL AND IN  
NEARSHORE WATERS.  
 

 
 

 
 
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