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The 2012–13 autumn/winter season would fail to produce a daily maximum temperature below freezing 32 °F (0 °C) until January 1, 2013, the first such time that has happened in Chicago weather records. The entire calendar year of 2012 did not record a temperature lower than 5 °F (−15 °C).
Average yearly precipitation for Illinois varies from just over 48 inches (1,200 mm) at the southern tip to just under 32 inches (810 mm) in the northern portion of the state. May and June are the wettest months of the year. Flooding is the most damaging weather hazard within the state.
This is the first time in 27 years that not a single named tropical storm has developed in the basin between Aug. 21 and Sept. 2. ... later this week and as a result this tropical wave will need ...
AccuWeather maintains its stance on a super-charged hurricane season for 2024 with the current number of systems that have developed still on par with the historical average and the busiest part ...
The mean tropical year is approximately 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 45 seconds. An equivalent, more descriptive, definition is "The natural basis for computing passing tropical years is the mean longitude of the Sun reckoned from the precessionally moving equinox (the dynamical equinox or equinox of date).
Long-range computer forecasts are in much better agreement that a disturbance, tropical depression, or perhaps Tropical Storm Patty could track into the Gulf of Mexico late next week.
While this zone will continue to be watched because of its reputation for churning out storms, AccuWeather meteorologists will focus their attention on areas relatively close to the continental U ...
The Köppen climate classification is the most widely used climate classification system. [2] It defines a tropical climate as a region where the mean temperature of the coldest month is greater than or equal to 18 °C (64 °F) and does not fit into the criteria for B-group climates, classifying them as an A-group (tropical climate group). [3]