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The 2012–13 autumn/winter season would fail to produce a daily maximum temperature below freezing 32 °F (0 °C) until January 1, 2013, the first such time that has happened in Chicago weather records. The entire calendar year of 2012 did not record a temperature lower than 5 °F (−15 °C).
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]
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 ...
Hottest day in Chicago history: 105 degrees (July 24, 1934) ... The 13th 90 degree or higher day did not come until July 19 last year.” June 25, 1988: “Chicago’s official high temperature ...
The Summer 2012 North American heat wave was one of the most severe heat waves in modern North American history. It resulted in more than 82 heat-related deaths across the United States and Canada, [2] [3] and an additional twenty-two people died in the resultant June 2012 North American derecho. This long-lived, straight-line wind and its ...
Get the Chicago, IL local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days. ... Last Sunday was the hottest day on Earth in all recorded history. ... Following a comfortable and mostly rain-free ...
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]
Part of the 1977–78 North American winter. The Great Blizzard of 1978 was a historic winter storm that struck the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes regions of the United States as well as Southern Ontario in Canada from Wednesday, January 25 through Friday, January 27, 1978. It is often cited as one of the most severe blizzards in US history. [ 1]