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Storms down trees, leave thousands without power amid holiday celebrations in Chicago area
Strong storms swept through the Chicago area, leaving damage in several suburbs.
More 70,000 people were left without power as powerful storms hit the Chicago area Friday, forcing many Fourth of July celebrations to cancel as the storms damaged parks, downed trees and flooded parts of the region.
Wind gusts of up to 70 mph were reported with the first line of storms that hit the Chicago area Friday afternoon.
The winds uprooted trees from Harvey to Chicago to Sugar Grove to and beyond.
Arlington Heights police warned of downed trees and intersections left without power.
"There are downed trees on various roadways throughout the Village. Public Works and first responders are working to address hazardous conditions as quickly and safely as possible," the police department wrote in an alert on social media.
Chicago weather: Severe Thunderstorm Watch, more rain for July 4th
CHICAGO – UPDATE: A Severe Thunderstorm Watch has been issued for most of northeastern Illinois and parts of Northwest Indiana until 7 p.m., according to the National Weather Service.
After last night’s round of storms, we’re in for another round of rainfall later for your Fourth of July Saturday.
We’re starting out in the 70s throughout much of the area and will top out at around 84 degrees.
Most of the morning and into the early afternoon should be relatively dry with partly cloudy conditions.
It likely won’t be until after lunchtime when we see showers and possible thunderstorms, but that activity will be on the downtick.
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Severe storms bring wind, flooding and power outage concerns in Chicago
A severe thunderstorm is expected to cool temperatures around Chicago ahead of Fourth of July festivities.
About 55,000 ComEd customers were without electricity Friday night following storms that hit the Chicago area, officials said.
Michelle Gonzalez, a ComEd spokesperson, said the storm impacted overall impacted about 122,000 customers but 55,000 remained without power as of 8 p.m Friday.
Storms moving through the Chicago area Friday afternoon helped bring this week’s oppressive heat wave to an end, according to the National Weather Service.
“These storms today will basically bring the heat wave to an end in terms of days in a row of much of the metro hitting 90 degrees,” said Ricky Castro, a meteorologist with the weather service. “We’re gonna cool off behind these storms pretty substantially.”
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