Snow Day
Added: October 12th, 2006 (tagged with: chicago, random)
Brrr! The first snow of the season happened today. I was sitting at my desk this morning when a co-worker announced that it was snowing and that the snow was, in fact, sticking to all the trees and cars.
Fortunately, the snow did not last long. It snowed on and off for a couple of hours before the sun melted it all away.
Out of curiosity, I looked up online Chicago's weather history to see what the earliest recorded snow day was. According to WGNTV.com's Weather Words - Chicago page:
Chicago's autumn snow records: In records dating from 1884, Chicago's earliest trace of snow: September 25 in 1928 and also 1942; earliest inch of snow: 1.8 inches on October 19, 1989 (recorded at Midway Airport).
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Chicago's first autumn snow: Based on 74 years of data (1928-2001) at Midway Airport, the average date of Chicago's first flake of snow in the autumn is October 31.
And just because Halloween is right around the corner...
Chicago's Halloween weather extremes: Mildest: 84 degrees (1950, Midway); coldest: 23 (1873; downtown); wettest: 2.63 inches (1994, Midway); heaviest snow: trace (1890, 1917, 1918, 1926, 1955, 1993).
