Wind Chill Advisory in effect for portions of Chicago area later tonight

Note Wind Chill Warnings (gray-shaded areas on the map above) are in effect for wind chills -35 to -45-degrees tonight and Sunday across a good portion of Minnesota into northern Iowa and the eastern half of the Dakotas.

We’re tracking frigid temperatures and wind chills today.

In these types of conditions, frostbite can occur in 30 minutes or less. The National Weather Service advises people to avoid going outside and to dress appropriately and to keep skin covered. The area will be under a wind chill advisory Sunday night. But even this cold blast will not be extreme enough to break more than a few daily low-temperature records, since this is the coldest time of the year climatologically speaking and many past cold waves have been even more severe.

Wind chill values are expected to drop between 15 below and 20 below zero from early this evening through Monday morning. Wind chill values will drop between -10 to -15.

Wind chills continue to reach unsafe levels in Minnesota Sunday morning.

Snow showers will work their way into western Pennsylvania Sunday as an arctic cold front delivers much colder air to the region.

Sunny, with a high near 5. Afternoon highs will struggle to climb into the upper single digits and low teens.

Wednesday: A chance of show showers after 4 p.m. and overnight. high near 31 degrees and a low around 25 degrees. In fact, our highs for the day will stay in the single digits for most of central IL – about 9 in Peoria.