Forecast: Rainy Easter Sunday in store

Chicagoland woke up to some cooler temperatures and soggy conditions on Saturday morning and a rainy Easter Sunday is in store.

SATURDAY NIGHT: Mostly cloudy & slight chance of showers– mostly near daybreak. Winds: E 10-15 mph. Low 42.

SUNDAY: Mostly cloudy, breezy & a bit chilly with afternoon showers. High 52, upper 40s lakeside.

The extended outlook calls for mostly cloudy skies on Monday with a chance of a few showers and highs in the lower 60s.

Partly sunny on Tuesday and back into the mid-60s.

Milder on Wednesday with highs in the low 70s and a chance of showers/thunderstorms by the afternoon. 

Extensive cloud cover will continue to dominate the weather scene across the Chicago area on this Easter/Passover weekend with the next weather system bringing scattered showers by Sunday afternoon, continuing at times into the first half of Monday. A few thunderstorms will also be possible Sunday night into Monday morning. 

Temperatures will be noticeably cooler as well. There’ll be no repeat of the near 80 degree warmth on Friday. Instead, highs both Saturday and Sunday will only reach the 50s, a level some 20+ degrees cooler. For areas close to Lake Michigan, it will be even chillier. Highs may struggle to make it out of the 40s on Easter Sunday. 

Heavy rain will be centered along a frontal boundary from Oklahoma City to St. Louis with a slight risk of severe weather across the southern Plains into portions of the Ohio Valley.

A swath of very heavy rain from northern Texas into the St. Louis area where 3-5” totals are likely. This has prompted the issuance of a Flash Flood Watch for that region.

Rocky Mountain heavy snowfall continues where 6”+ is possible in higher elevations of Colorado. 

Nine-day high temperature forecast:  

Forecast average temperature anomaly April 18 through 24:

Forecast average temperature anomaly April 25 through May 1: