Freezing temperatures continue across Chicago area

Biting wind chills and dangerously low temperatures are expected to continue through midweek across the Chicago area, with city’s collection site recording 10 degrees below zero Monday morning.

A wind chill advisory remains in place and is expected to be lifted at 9 a.m. Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service. High temperatures Monday range from minus 6 to 1, with wind chills hitting 35 to 15 degrees below zero.

The freezing air mass is the coldest Chicago has seen in five years, with the last comparable cold snap in January 2019.

“But in terms of magnitude similar to this, you would probably have to go back to 2014,” said meteorologist Ricky Castro.

Wind chills are not expected to rise above minus 10 until Wednesday afternoon. The milder temperatures will continue Thursday before another shot of arctic air hits the region this weekend, the weather service said.