Severe thunderstorms cause ground stops at Chicago’s Midway and O’Hare airports

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Visible images (above) showed the rapid development of thunderstorms that produced strong wind gusts across parts of northeast Illinois and northwest Indiana on 24 July 2025 — forcing ground stops of all inbound flights to Chicago’s Midway and O’Hare airports (beginning at 1945 UTC). The peak wind... Read More