Despite Chicago’s snowiest start to the season in 47 years, the chances of a white Christmas are looking bleak.

After a weekend with dangerously low wind chills , the jet stream is going to undergo a major pattern flip next week.

Temperatures will climb above freezing Tuesday afternoon, and it’s likely we have daily highs above freezing each day thereafter through Christmas Day.

Once the jet stream lifts northward and flattens out (moves move west-to-east versus north-south), we’ll enter in a quiet and mild pattern. We have one more trough, or dip in the jet stream, around Thursday, Dec. 18, which would bring us rain and drop the temperatures from the 40s back to the 30s.

Long range forecast models are all showing the same trend; highs ranging from near 40 to 50 degrees through Ch

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