Are you still at work? Dude, leave. Have you seen the weather outside? Today was a good day to bring your hat and gloves, son. No need to Ask Tom Why either. more ›

Yeah. We're that good. more ›

It's no secret that we love Ask Tom Why. Because sometimes it's easier to write a letter to a team of meteorologists and wait for an answer to be printed in the newspaper than just to google it. Oooh, information supahighway. more ›

like autumn, even if it's starting to look like it. Chicagoland trees have started shedding their leaves early this year after an unusually stressful spring. more ›

Chicagoist loves the Ask Tom Why column in the Tribune, where people write in 'weather' questions and meteorologists answer them. (Tom gets a little help from the weather crew.) In general the questions don't need to be answered by a weather expert; they just need to be answered by someone who's relatively well informed or who can look things up in an encyclopedia. For example, it turns out people don't know what a 40 percent chance of rain is, so they ask Tom. We're glad he helps out with stuff like that. more ›