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Yesterday's serious showers turned out to be the area's heaviest official rainfall in five years. Yowza! Areas of the city were hit with more than 4 inches of rain, which obliterates 2003's 3.2 inches on April 30/May 1,and Peoria, Rockford and Moline all saw record-level rainfall.
It looks like the wet weather may be behind us, though. Forecasts for this weekend and into early next week are predicting cloudy days but not a lot of precipitation, with highs in the low 70s and and nighttime lows in the 50s. [Trib, WGN, Accuweather, NWS]
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i work at a place that is right in a storefront with huge windows. i watched it rain all day, a lot of it very hard rain. i couldn't really believe it was raining so continuously.
as i was leaving work, a co-worker wanted to know if it was going to clear up so she could go do something outside later that evening. i checked the weather channel's radar, and i had never seen such a solid green before.
then, i remembered vaguely hearing something about this storm being the remains from gustav and it humbled me to think of this rain amplified 300 times or something. i've never come close to living anywhere where there's been a hurricane, but that must be something just incredible.
The funny thing about hurricanes is that if a hurricane hit Chicago, we'd be mostly fine, aside from flooded basements and garden apartments (damn sewer system!). Hurricane force winds wouldn't faze the city's mostly brick construction.
Oddly enough, places that have no risk of hurricanes are perfectly built to withstand them, with our heavy, solid, brick construction, and general lack of simple slab foundations. Helps with tornadoes too, I guess.