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The last time the airport experienced a temperature of 100 or higher was more than a decade ago, on July 6, 2012. The temperature tied the daily record high in Chicago for Aug. 24, ...
Zachary Yack, a meteorologist with Chicago’s National Weather Service, said temperatures are running about 10 to 15 degrees higher than normal, which in late August is in the low to mid 80s.
The official record high for Chicago for July 11 is also from 1936—but is recorded as just 97 °F (36 °C). Further west in what would today be the near and far suburbs (e.g. DuPage County and westward), temperatures reached a blistering 110 °F (43 °C) or still higher at points during this massive heat wave. These extreme temperatures are ...
June 25, 1988: “Chicago’s official high temperature was a record (for June 25) 103 degrees at O’Hare International Airport at 3 p.m., and it was 2 degrees higher at Lake Michigan. By ...
Christopher C. Burt, a weather historian writing for Weather Underground, believes that the 1913 Death Valley reading is "a myth", and is at least 2.2 or 2.8 °C (4 or 5 °F) too high. [13] Burt proposes that the highest reliably recorded temperature on Earth could still be at Death Valley, but is instead 54.0 °C (129.2 °F) recorded on 30 ...
In Chicago, Midway Airport recorded three days with high temperatures of at least 100 °F (38 °C) between June 14 and 21. [22] On June 17, the heat dome moved over the Mid-Atlantic briefly, causing a record high of 99 °F (37 °C) in Washington DC, and tying the record high of 96 °F (36 °C) in Baltimore.
Before the weather swing Tuesday, people across Chicagoland enjoyed mid-70 degree temperatures registered at both Chicago airports. But by late afternoon, the threat of severe weather woke many ...
Today, Chicago's skyline is among the world's tallest and densest. ... The July daily average temperature is 75.4 °F (24.1 °C), with afternoon temperatures peaking ...