Shoveling/snow blowing conditions include a medium weight dry snow with low winds of 8 mph. If a date has a plus sign beside it that means the same amount of snow also fell on at least one other day earlier in the year. Parts of the Chicago area saw well over a foot of snow Monday night into Tuesday, with some snowfall totals reaching as high as 18 inches, as the latest round of winter weather blanketed the region. That’s a total since snow started falling in earnest Thursday evening. This page gives the highest daily snowfall of each year in Chicago and the date it occurred. Here's how much snow has fallen in the past five seasons: 3-11, 2018, Chicago tied a record for consecutive. Here are the Top 10 Chicago snowfalls of all time, according to the National Weather Service: 13, 2018, there has been 28.3 inches of snow at O'Hare Airport, compared to an average of 24.8 inches to date. For latest snow totals in your area, click here. Snow in February ranges from over 20 inches in heavy snowfall years to under 2.6 inches in light years. 1974 80 F on 3 March, earliest 80 F degree temperature ever recorded. Huge lake ice shoves cause damage to homes. Buffalo snow storm death toll rises to 37 as crews search for victims. Due to historic and unseasonably warm rainy weather, Chicago witnessed no measurable snow cover for the entire months of January and February for the first. A Look Back at the Climate for the Month of February 2018 for Chicago and Rockford. 1967 Great 23-inch snowstorm over 26-27 January 27-inch snow depth in early February. Snowfall tops 6.5 feet, rainfall tops 5 inches across SoCal. Records established or tied during the winter months: December: Record daily low maximum temperature of 5 degrees on the 26th. Plenty more snow fell across the region in other parts of the Chicago area. There was a total of 30.2 inches of snow recorded at Chicago, which is 2.1 inches above normal. That seasonal snowfall puts us between the 1893-1894 season (44.4 inches) and the 1896-1897 season (45.0 inches) to rank 38th among snowiest seasons. That includes 7.5 inches from this week's storm alone. Totals are measured at O'Hare International Airport. So is this the snowiest winter Chicago has ever had? Not quite.Īs of Tuesday morning, Chicago clocked 44.8 inches of snow so far for the season, according to NBC 5 meteorologist Paul Deanno. Comparatively, in the previous 122 days, we saw 8.6 inches. Typically the city averages 36 inches of snow for an entire season. In the last 22 days, 36.2 inches of snow fell on Chicago. After the latest snowstorm, the city has seen a winter’s worth of snow in the past three weeks alone. If February in Chicago feels particularly snowy, you're right.
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