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Chicago To Face 'Antiperspirant-Defying Heat,' But The Rain Sort Of Helped

 A rainstorm on Thursday night will help cool things down for Friday, but it'll still hit 91 degrees.
A rainstorm on Thursday night will help cool things down for Friday, but it'll still hit 91 degrees.
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CHICAGO — Thursday night's rainstorm had one big benefit: It'll cool things down for Friday, though it'll still be the hottest day of the year so far.

It was originally expected that Chicago would feel as hot as 110 degrees on Friday, but AccuWeather meteorologist Elliot Abrams said the city will now hit 91 degrees while feeling more like 100. Friday's expected high temperature would make this the hottest day of the year so far, though the city was also this warm earlier this month.

You can thank the rain for the cooldown: Many places in the city got more than 1 inch of rain on Thursday night, Abrams said, and some of the sun's energy "will go into evaporating that water instead of adding heat."

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A spotty thunderstorm could hit again on Friday afternoon, and there's a chance for rain on Saturday and Sunday morning.

Still, Chicago will be facing "baking and broiling heat" and is expected to get hit with high temperatures in the 90s throughout the weekend, Abrams said.

"We don't have 100 too often," Abrams said. "The main thing is it's going to be uncomfortably oppressive, and basically we've moved from the castle of caloric diathermancy to the furnace fires of sultry sizzle.

"It's going to be hot, too," he joked.

Temperatures will peak in the low 90s on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, Abrams said, not falling until the city gets a "little relief" with a high of in the mid-80s on Tuesday.

Hitting the "80s will seem almost great" after the stretch of 90-degree days, Abrams said.

Here's how Abrams put it:

It's going to be hot, hazy and humid. It won't just be the hazy divitrification and fuliginous filminess of the turbid, nubiferous, semidiaphonous, sultry air that obscures, dulls and hides our views, but also the recalescent, sudorific, canicular, pyrogenic, frying heat that gains our attention. It won't just be the incandescent sun grilling, broiling, baking, toasting and roasting us, but add to that the humid, sultry, humectant, sweltering, perspiratory moistness of the air, and it becomes abundantly clear that we not only face diathermanous heat and fuliginous divitrification but also pyrogenic and sudorfic baking and broiling heat. In short, it's going to be hazy, hot and humid. With each new dawn, the igneous sun reappears, and the caloric diathermancy and radiant heat take over once again to steam, braise and broil, bake, scorch and parch. There'll be no denying the frying, so be careful toiling when it's broiling.

From today through at least tomorrow, we'll have antiperspirant-defying heat. It'll be arid and extra dry, that's for sure. The right guard against this is to wear shirts or blouses that never let them see you sweat. It's no secret that when days broil toward 90 on the dial, you need to watch fluid levels and be alert for signs of heat stress. Of course, heat affects each person to a different degree.  This goes for men and women. Some people look suave or soft and dry no matter how hot it gets, but others ... . As for cool air the next two days, mum's the word. With a front nearby, however, thunderstorms are not banned, and the hot weather will just roll on. Of course, for forecasters, the simplicity of the pattern means forecasting is no sweat. Showers affect others but we Mitchum. Recapping our weather, hot sunshine will really stick with us the next few days, and the forecast includes the dry idea. It's a Brut. When will the heat end? Don't Axe. 

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