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One thing about the cold weather and Chicago — it’s not new. While the record took place Jan. 20, 1985, many of the city’s lowest recorded temperatures came from arctic snaps in 1872 and 1899.
The coldest temperature ever recorded in Chicago city limits is −27 °F (−33 °C) at O'Hare on January 20, 1985, [18] though unofficial temperatures as low as −3 °F (−19 °C) have been recorded at Chicago Aurora Airport in far western suburbs and in the rural areas to the west of Chicago. [43]
In recent decades, new high temperature records have substantially outpaced new low temperature records on a growing portion of Earth's surface. [1] Comparison shows seasonal variability for record increases. The list of weather records includes the most extreme occurrences of weather phenomena for various categories. Many weather records are ...
In Hastings, Nebraska, a high temperature of -2 degrees was recorded on Tuesday, which shattered the previous cold high of February 18 of 5 degrees in 1993. The average for the city is 41 degrees.
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 ...
When winter rolls around, we lose around 4 to 8 hours of daylight, with some regions like Alaska exceeding 12 hours. Have you ever noticed that such a lack of sunshine and lower temperatures in ...
As a result, the official record-lowest temperature for the state was −36 °F (−37.8 °C) recorded at Congerville on 5 January 1999. [11] In 2019, the January North American Cold Wave struck Illinois. This resulted in a new record low temperature, −38 °F (−38.9 °C), recorded on January 31, 2019, at Mount Carroll.
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.