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Here's when the average coldest day of the year happens in your area. ... including Chicago (Jan. 20, 1985), Cleveland (Jan. 19, 1994) and Minneapolis-St. Paul (Jan. 21, 1888).
The entire December–March period in Chicago was the coldest on record, topping the previous record from 1903 to 1904, even colder than the notoriously cold winters of the late 1970s. [114] The average temperature in Chicago from December 1, 2013, to March 31, 2014, was 22 °F (−6 °C), 10 °F (5.6 °C) below average.
Chicago's Northerly Island recorded temperatures as low as −21 °F (−29 °C) and Chicago's Midway International Airport recorded a temperature of −22 °F (−30 °C); O'Hare's maximum of −10 °F (−23 °C) that day was a daily record and also only 1 °F (0.56 °C) higher than Chicago's official record cold maximum set on January 18 ...
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
Tuesday could be the coldest day of the week in Chicago, where the high temperature could struggle to reach 50. Before Monday’s high of 57, Chicago hadn’t recorded a high in the 50s since April.
The warmest day on record for the entire planet was 22 July 2024 when the highest global average temperature was recorded at 17.16 °C (62.89 °F). [20] The previous record was 17.09 °C (62.76 °F) set the day before on 21 July 2024. [20] The month of July 2023 was the hottest month on record globally. [21]
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It was the first time in 65 years that Chicago had ever seen a triad of 100 °F (38 °C) days. [39] Chicago nearly recorded a fourth consecutive 100 °F (38 °C) day, but the temperature reached 98 degrees at O'Hare in late morning before a weak cold front came through the area and cooled temperatures off slightly in the city area, holding in ...