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Snow has arrived in Chicago! And the first measurable snow of the 2024-2025 season was impressive. According to the National Weather Service’s Chicago office, 2.9 inches of snow fell at O’Hare ...
The most snow Chicago has ever received in one season was 89.7 inches during 1978-79. The least — 9.8 inches — occurred in 1920-21. Here’s a look back at how our current snowfall compares ...
But snow totals could reach 6-12 inches in parts of ... around 4-8 inches of snow, the weather service said. ... when snow accumulations in excess of 6 inches are possible," the NWS in Chicago ...
Seasonal snowfall in the city has ranged from 9.8 inches (24.9 cm) (in 1920–21) up to 89.7 in (228 cm) (in 1978–79), and the average annual snowfall in Chicago is 36 inches (91 cm). [27] Most winters produce many snow falls during the season in light accumulations of around 2 in (5.1 cm).
The 23 inches (58.4 cm) inches of snow that fell on Chicago for 29 hours from the morning of January 26, 1967 is a record for a single storm. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] [ 8 ] [ 10 ] The 19.8 inches (50.3 cm) that fell on January 26–27 was the greatest amount of snow for a 24-hour period, later surpassed by Groundhog Day Blizzard of 2011 with 20.0 inches (50 ...
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] Only 2 inches (5.1 cm) to 4 inches (10 cm) of snow was expected [2] but by the end of Sunday, January 14, the depth of snow on the ground peaked at 29 inches (74 cm). [3] The blizzard lasted for a total of 38 hours.
A blanket of snow swept the eastern half of the continental U.S. Wednesday after more than 90 million Americans were under winter weather advisories or warnings. At least 4-8 inches of snow fell ...
Bands of heavy lake-effect snow will develop in the wake of a storm straddling 2024 and 2025 from the Upper Midwest and interior Northeast. AccuWeather meteorologists say sneaky bursts of snow in ...