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(5:15 p.m. ET) Chicago-Area Schools Announce Closures Ahead Of Next Storm The next winter storm, arriving later tonight into tomorrow, is set to hit Chicago, forcing schools to close or switch to ...
The first of this week’s back-to-back-to-back winter storms is dumping snow, ice and rain over a 1,500 mile stretch of the eastern US Tuesday. The second winter storm will hit some of the same ...
Get the Chicago, IL local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days. ... Winter Storm To Bring More Rain And Snow To West, But A Quick Break Is On The Way.
The July 2023 Chicago Area Flood was caused by a heavy rainfall that occurred on July 2, 2023, in the Chicago Metropolitan Area of northeastern Illinois. Rainfall up to 9.0 inches (23 cm) occurred over an 18-hour period; the majority occurred from early in the morning to late in the afternoon. [ 1 ]
The highest temperature ever recorded in the Chicago city limits is an unofficial 109 °F (43 °C) on July 24, 1934, at Midway Airport. The official reading of 105 °F (41 °C) for that day was taken at the University of Chicago campus near the shoreline off Lake Michigan.
Ivan Brunk, meteorologist in charge of the Chicago U.S. Weather Bureau (now National Weather Service) office at that time, suggested that the radio service be reinstated and put to Marine usage on an experimental basis. The marine weather broadcast was an immediate success, and the service became permanent two years later.
A series of winter storms are expected to bring rain, ice and snow to much of the Midwest and East Coast this week.. According to AccuWeather, a storm emerging into the southern Plains is forecast ...
While elevating Chicago, and at first improving the city's health, the untreated sewage and industrial waste now flowed into the Chicago River, and subsequently into Lake Michigan, polluting the city's primary freshwater source. The city responded by tunneling two miles (3.2 km) out into Lake Michigan to newly built water cribs. In 1900, the ...