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Climate data for Chicago (O'Hare Int'l Airport), 1991–2020 normals, [a] extremes 1871–present [b]Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year Record high °F (°C)
The National Weather Service office of Chicago has one of the longest periods of official weather records, dating back to 1870, though all the 1870 and 1871 weather records taken at 181 West Washington Street were lost in the Great Chicago Fire. Of the two major airports located in Chicago, Midway Airport began observations in 1928, and O'Hare ...
The storm was blamed for 60 deaths in Chicago metro area, according to the Chicago History Museum. Vehicles stranded after a Jan. 26-27, 1967 blizzard in Chicago.
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). [283] 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.
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 ...
In Chicago, snow seasons are tracked from July through the following June. The area normally can expect 38.4 inches, according to the National Weather Service. Chicago was warmer than average ...
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 ...
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