Wednesday: ride your bike! It could be your last chance before bad stuff Thursday and Friday.
Oh, about Friday: “winds could occasionally gust over 50 mph.”
Anyway. See below for Wednesday’s forecast.
NEW, IMPROVED WEDNESDAY WEATHER INFOGRAPHIC:
Overall: high 54, low 43, mostly cloudy, not much wind
Morning: low 40s, partly cloudy, negligible wind
Evening: low 50s/high 40s, cloudy, wind from the NE at 8 MPH.
Lettuce Cat Wind Meter (Red Cabbage Edition):
That cabbage isn’t going anywhere. Quite calm.
DIVVY BIKE REPORT: all stations operational.
STREET CLOSURES:
Also reports of flooding on the North Branch Trail south of Harts Road. (Chainlink)
PARTIAL STREET CLOSURES (downtown only):
Click here for the whole thing.
OVERALL COMMUTE RATING:
3.25/4. The best you’re gonna get this week.
In other news…
-In the Reader, John Greenfield asks why the Navy Pier Flyover is taking so dang long to build
-Streetsblog notes pedestrian deaths are rising even as crash fatalities as a whole decline
-You can buy a tandem recumbent on Craigslist for only $1500.
That’s all. Enjoy your rides!
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