It's typical for the city to be coated in unmelted snow for a whole winter, with a massive melt coming in the spring.īut this year Chicago has gone all of January and February without any snow accumulation - and it isn't expected to before the month closes Tuesday night.

Chicago is a wildly snowy city, where schools regularly stay open through snowstorms that would shut down other urban centers. This month the city has experienced 18 days with highs above 40 degrees - a very unusual weather pattern in the Midwestern lakefront metropolis - and one six-day period, February 17-22, in which the daily high temperatures were 67 degrees, 70 degrees, 67 degrees, 69 degrees, 65 degrees, and 67 degrees. When March rolls around, 25 degrees Fahrenheit becomes an excuse to break out the lightweight jacket.īut Chicago is having a weird winter. You can go weeks in January and February without spending a comfortable second outdoors. Your hair ices over if you spend too long outdoors, brittle strands snapping off at a touch. And living there in the dead of winter, you learn to climb flights of steps coated in inches-thick sheets of ice that last all winter. The Snow & Trail Report will resume next December when Cooper re-opens for the 2023-24 Season. The other five, of course, are often bitterly cold, snowy, and windy. All Rights Reserved.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. Valparaiso 6SSW (Porter).0.3Ĭrown Point (Lake).0.2 Kankakee (Kankakee).0.1Ĭhatsworth (Livingston).TRACEĭwight (Livingston).TRACE Watseka (Iroquois).0.3ĭe Kalb (De Kalb).0.2 Streator 4ENE (La Salle).0.4Įlgin (Kane).0.3Įarlville 3S (La Salle).0.3 Streator 1WSW (La Salle).0.8īyron 3N (Ogle).0.8 Somonauk 2NE (De Kalb).1.0Īurora 4SE (Du Page).1.0 Harvard (McHenry).1.0īurnham-hegewisch 2NNW (Cook).1.0 Plainfield 5SW (Kendall).1.2Įlgin 2W (Kane).1.2 Streator (Livingston).2.0Įlgin (Kane).1.8 Homewood (Cook).2.5Ĭountryside 1ENE (Cook).2.5 Mokena 1W (Will).3.8Ĭhicago Ridge (Cook).3.5 Lake Zurich (Lake).4.5Įlmhurst 1ESE (Du Page).4.4 Rogers Park 2SW (Cook).5.0ĭowners Grove 0.4NNE (Du Page).5.0 Mundelein (Lake).5.6Įlk Grove Village 2WSW (Cook).5.5 Storms and Heavy Rains Southern Heat Wave.

Riverwoods (Lake).6.0Įlk Grove Village 1ESE (Cook).5.6 Tuesday: Northern Illinois Snowīuffalo Grove 2N (Lake).9.0 Forecasts the expected snowfall amount, snow accumulation, and with snowfall radar. Typically, snowfall is logged from autumn. Kansas City, MO Weather Radar AccuWeather Today Hourly Daily Radar. Here are the snow totals reported to the National Weather Service for snow that fell between 7 a.m. David Landsittel Dear David, Chicago’s calendar-year snowfall in 2017 was anemic, totaling just 13.8 inches, the city’s fourth-lowest since 1885. For example, since Sunday morning, Buffalo Grove has seen 13 inches of snow. A winter storm Sunday night into Monday morning brought only moderate amounts to most areas, but lake effect snow that started falling Monday night brought even more snow, with several inches falling north of the city. CHICAGO (CBS) - After going nearly three months without any significant snowfall, the Chicago area has seen snow falling off and on for two days in a row.

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