Things Are Heating Up

By Margaret Lyons in News on Jan 7, 2008 6:03PM

It's super warm out--especially when you remember it was a ball-destroying zero degrees Thursday morning. It's supposed to go up to 64 degrees this afternoon, which breaks a 100-year-old temperature record. Go, present day!

While the warmer temps are a treasured respite from the bitter winds this time of year is better known for, they do present certain inconveniences, namely fog and flooding. Today's fogginess is not, unlike our own fogginess, a result of too fun a weekend; rather, it's an advection fog, formed when warm air flows over cold ground. A bunch of flights at O'Hare were canceled or delayed due to crummy visibility, but things seem to be back up and running.

Temps will be dropping the rest of this week, with tomorrow reaching around 50 degrees and things cooling back to the 30s by Sunday. Booooo.

John Sadowski captures the last gasps of a melting snowman