'Be prepared.'Ĭhiampas said right now is not a time to let your guard down. 'These are dangerously unsafe conditions,' said emergency medicine physician Dr. Subzero air temperatures with double-digit negative wind chills constitute the latter – and it's dangerous. There's cold – and then there's bitter cold. In brutal wind chills as the Chicago area was experiencing Friday night, it only takes about 10 minutes of being exposed outside before it becomes extremely dangerous to your body.ĬBS 2's Marybel González spoke to some doctors on what you can do to stay safe. It will be 10 degrees with a wind chill of -8 when the Bears kick off against the Buffalo Bills on Christmas Eve. So even though the winter alerts expire at 6 a.m., blowing and drifting snow will persist on Saturday. Winds were gusting at 41 mph at Midway International Airport Friday night, 39 at Aurora, 36 at O'Hare and Valparaiso, and 30 at Waukegan and McHenry. Wind chills are not expected to change overnight. The wind chill in Aurora was -30 at 10 p.m. At 10 p.m., it was -2 in Chicago with a wind chill making it feel like -24. Meanwhile, the bitter cold was not to be underestimated in Chicago Friday night. Lake-enhanced light snow persists for Northwest Indiana, with strong winds still blowing the snow. Saturday for Porter and LaPorte counties in Indiana and for west and southwest Michigan. A blizzard warning remains in effect until 6 a.m.

While the snow has been over for some time in Chicago and dangerous cold is now the story, a winter storm warning remains in effect for the entire Chicago area until 6 a.m.

Chicago snow totals for today