Weather With Enthusiasm — Friday, September 11, 2026
Erev Rosh Hashana · 29 Elul 5786 · West Rogers Park, Chicago 60645
Voices: Charon (male) and Sulafat (female), alternating. Runtime about 15 minutes.
Music
Glass Beads (The Balloonist) — 5 seconds before the script and 5 seconds after, under the episode
Our Names Engraved (Duck Lake) — under the severe-weather outlook
Atlantic Tunes — under the Bermuda high / 500-millibar pattern
Melancholy updated — under the Rosh Hashana gratitude close
Zmanim (Hebcal, ZIP 60645)
Today, Friday September 11: Alos 5:01 AM · Misheyakir 5:28 AM · Netz 6:26 AM · Sof Zman Shema 9:36 AM · Sof Zman Tefila 10:40 AM · Chatzos 12:46 PM · Mincha Gedola 1:18 PM · Shkiah 7:07 PM
Hadlakas Neiros: 6:47 PM (Chicago minhag, 20 minutes before sunset). Hebcal lists 6:49 PM.
Tomorrow, Saturday September 12 (1 Tishrei 5787, Rosh Hashana I): Alos 5:03 AM · Netz 6:27 AM · Sof Zman Shema 9:37 AM · Sof Zman Tefila 10:40 AM · Chatzos 12:46 PM · Shkiah 7:05 PM. Second-night candles after nightfall; Hebcal 7:47 PM.
Sunday, September 13 (2 Tishrei 5787, Rosh Hashana II): Alos 5:04 AM · Netz 6:28 AM · Shkiah 7:03 PM. Havdalah 7:45 PM per Hebcal.
Chicago
Current at O'Hare around issue time: 81°F, dew point 54°F
7-day (NWS Chicago point forecast): today sunny ~77; Saturday 85; Sunday 73 with 30% showers after 1 PM; rain chances grow Tuesday–Wednesday
NWS Chicago AFD 209 PM CDT Fri Sep 11 2026, Kluber: dry through Saturday; rain Sunday; heavy rain/thunderstorm waves early–mid next week; PWAT 1.7 to 2.00 inches Tuesday–Wednesday; no watches/warnings IL/IN/LM
Water
Lake Michigan (NWS LOT OMR 905 AM CDT): Chicago shore 69°F; crib (60 ft) 60°F; Chicago buoy 70°F; Ohio St 69°F; mid-lake south 74 / central 72 / north 69
Open lake (NWS Milwaukee GLF): gales likely Monday–Tuesday, waves 10–14 ft, occasionally 18
Gulf SST (NDBC 42035 86.5°F; 42012 86.2°F; 42001 88.5°F)
National
SPC Day 1 1127 AM CDT: Slight Risk Upper Midwest — large hail (some 2+ inches), damaging winds, a couple of tornadoes late afternoon–tonight
Denver 90s today and mid-90s Sunday (NWS Boulder AFD)
Southern Utah Marginal excessive rain; northern valleys wind (NWS Salt Lake AFD)
Cascades: fire weather today, frost/freeze possible Sunday–Monday mornings (NWS Medford AFD)
North Atlantic gale low 55N 53W, 984 mb / 29.06 inHg (OPC High Seas)
Alaska, Hawaii, tropics
NWS Anchorage AFD: Bering/Aleutian front; Southcentral 60s and fog; light rain Saturday morning Anchorage/Mat-Su
NWS Honolulu AFD: drier trades; Kona nuisance flooding possible
Atlantic: no tropical cyclone formation next 7 days (NHC)
Tropical Storm Norbert: 16.6N 124.7W, 65 mph, west 14 mph, 996 mb / 29.42 inHg, about 1,055 miles WSW of southern Baja and 2,005 miles east of Hilo; could become a hurricane this weekend (NHC public advisory)
History
September 11, 1961: Hurricane Carla, Category 4, Matagorda Island, Texas
September 11, 1992: Hurricane Iniki, Kauai, 145 mph, 27.91 inHg
September 11, 1900: remnants of the Great Galveston Hurricane over central Iowa
Source: NWS Aberdeen this-day history
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