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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 ]
The Chicago blizzard of 1967 struck northeast Illinois and northwest Indiana on January 26–27, 1967, with a record-setting 23 inches (58 cm) snow fall in Chicago and its suburbs before the storm abated the next morning. As of 2024, it remains the greatest snowfall in one storm in Chicago history.
Many suburban, exurban and rural locations have all-time records that have surpassed 110 °F (43 °C), many of which were set during a heat wave in July 1936, when a massive heat wave engulfed the entire Chicago and northern Illinois region, resulting in eight consecutive days at or above 100 °F (38 °C) at Midway Airport, peaking at 107 °F ...
January is typically one of the two worst months for winter weather in the U.S. In some years that starts right as the new year arrives. On Jan. 2, 1999, 26 years ago today, a major snowstorm ...
Saturday's snowfall of 11.2 inches recorded Friday and Saturday was beat only by a snowstorm ending on Nov. 26 in 1895 that saw 12 inches of snow fall.
The Arctic air mass started moving into the United States on the evening of January 19 and into the morning of January 20, 1985. In Chicago, Illinois, a record low of −27 °F (−33 °C) combined with 25 miles per hour (40 km/h) winds, to produce a wind chill of −60 °F (−51 °C). [2] St.
The high temperature in Washington, DC, on Wednesday could top out in the mid-50s — 10 to 15 degrees lower than normal for mid-October. Atlanta could struggle to break into the low 60s on ...
Chicago, Illinois, reached −21 °F (−29.4 °C) [23] with wind chills of around −55 °F (−48.3 °C), [24] the coldest day of the 1990s in Chicago by far. [25] Almost all primary and secondary schools in Chicago were closed that day. Richard Daley, then mayor of