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Weather data from Midway Airport before July 1, 1942, and after January 16, 1980, and data from O'Hare Airport before January 17, 1980, are not part of the official climate record of Chicago. Here is a list of official weather observation locations for the Chicago office: [5]
The highest temperature recorded in Illinois was 117 °F (47.2 °C), recorded on July 14, 1954, at East St. Louis, while the lowest temperature was −38 °F (−38.9 °C), recorded on January 31, 2019, at Mount Carroll . Illinois averages around 50 days of thunderstorm activity a year which put it somewhat above average for number of ...
The weather forecast on January 25 for the 26th was for rain or snow because the cold front was forecast to stall in the Chicago area. On the evening broadcast, the National Weather Service started talking about snow mixed with freezing rain, but it was not until the night that the forecast was changed to mention snowfall, giving an accumulation of 4 inches. [5]
Then, to cap the climax, the mercury registered the hottest evening the Weather bureau has ever had to record in Chicago. July 1, 1956: “It was the 13th day this year that the temperature has ...
The July 1995 Chicago heat wave led to 739 heat-related deaths in Chicago over a period of five days. [ 1] Most of the victims of the heat wave were elderly poor residents of the city, who did not have air conditioning, or had air conditioning but could not afford to turn it on, and did not open windows or sleep outside for fear of crime. [ 2]
This was an unusually far north tornado outbreak and one of only five high risk days during the month of November in recorded history (three since 2000). [282] Many Midwest cities (including Chicago, South Bend, and Fort Wayne) outside the climatologically most frequent High Risk locations experienced their second High Risk day of 2013.
October 1952 – Romania was hit by very hot weather. Temperatures reached 39.0 °C (102.2 °F) on 2 October, with Bucharest reaching 35.2 °C (95.4 °F). Temperatures on the night of 2–3 October were also just under 26 °C (79 °F). 1955 – 1955 United Kingdom heat wave was a period of hot weather that was accompanied by drought. In some ...
The Chicago blizzard of 1979 was a major blizzard that affected northern Illinois and northwest Indiana on January 13–14, 1979. It was one of the largest Chicago snowstorms in history at the time, with 21 inches (53 cm) of snowfall in the two-day period. [ 1] Only 2 inches (5.1 cm) to 4 inches (10 cm) of snow was expected [ 2] but by the end ...