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Chicago 2012 Record Watch


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We're setting every boring and awful record possible...coming up in 2013: least windy day, lowest dewpoint and longest stretch of high temps in the 50s

Least cloudy, least amount of days with rainfall over 0.50", highest yearly average barometric pressure...this list will go on and on.

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seriously, didn't we already set least cloudy?

We did...

"Never, since sunshine measurements began in 1893, have 14 consecutive months produced above normal sunshine. Never---that is---until this year. November 2012 will go down in the books as the latest sunnier than normal month."

That streak will end this month though.

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Yeah this UHI/Lake Michigan Hothub is nonsense.

It feels impossible to get subfreezing readings around here.

I know this isn't a typical winter here at all, but since I have moved to Chicago it has been nothing but crap.

The one good storm last year I was out of town for too.

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Yeah this UHI/Lake Michigan Hothub is nonsense.

It feels impossible to get subfreezing readings around here.

I know this isn't a typical winter here at all, but since I have moved to Chicago it has been nothing but crap.

The one good storm last year I was out of town for too.

Don't worry, it melted 6 hours later

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Wow, at the last several statistics above!

I think there have been at least 10 days below freezing since November here. I would imagine MDW is right up in the low 300's as well!

That would be a pretty big difference over a relatively short distance. Are you sure that some of your below freezing days didn't have midnight highs above freezing?

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Wow, at the last several statistics above!

I think there have been at least 10 days below freezing since November here. I would imagine MDW is right up in the low 300's as well!

That would be a pretty big difference over a relatively short distance. Are you sure that some of your below freezing days didn't have midnight highs above freezing?

UGN has failed to hit 32F+ only 2 times this season so far.

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UGN has failed to hit 32F+ only 2 times this season so far.

Pretty sure there was a couple days in November as well!

I see what your saying, your not including 32°! I'm thinking above AOB 32°.

Well at 32° or below there has been 7 or 8 day here. Failed to read the fine print there! :)

I've worked with statistics outside of weather, so I should have caught that!

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GEOS is like the NAM... You cut 1/4 to as much as 1/2 off of w/e he spits out and then you're in the ballpark.

If your referring to this mornings snow report. I was eyeballing it from inside, while it was still dark out.

I have the right measuring technique down now! :D;)

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That would be a pretty big difference over a relatively short distance. Are you sure that some of your below freezing days didn't have midnight highs above freezing?

As of today:

5 days < 32°. Coldest day 12/25, high 27°. 11/24, 12/23, 12/25-2728. Scratch today, it was 32.0°.

9 days ≤ 32°.

These are temperatures at my house about 2 miles from UGN. I'm a little further inland then the airport, so the moderating affect from the lake is slightly less.

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Least Snowy Decembers:

1. Trace - 1912

1. Trace - 1889

3. 0.1" - 1943

4. 0.3" - 2012

4. 0.3" - 1971

4. 0.3" - 1906

7. 0.4" - 1986

8. 0.5" - 1939

9. 0.6" - 2004

10. 0.8" - 1936

I'm having trouble finding month by month records for official Chicago sites prior to 1942 when Midway became the official site, but using the Decembers above and rolling forward through the rest of the season gives this:

Snow through Dec 31.....Seasonal Snow

1889: ????.....21.7"

1906: ????.....29.3"

1912: ????.....19.1"

1936: ????.....12.0"

1939: ????.....31.0"

1943: 0.3".....24.0"

1971: 1.5".....46.8"

1986: 4.2".....26.2"

2004: 5.7".....39.4"

Although there's not a ton of cases, it appears that a December with less than 1" of snow in Chicago is not a very good sign for the rest of winter. 2004-2005 was an ok winter but there was already 5.7" by the end of December (mainly due to the storm around Thanksgiving). 1971 had a nice turnaround but besides that it's pretty ugly.

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I'm having trouble finding month by month records for official Chicago sites prior to 1942 when Midway became the official site, but using the Decembers above and rolling forward through the rest of the season gives this:

If you want monthly records for Chicago, you can find them here: http://www.nws.noaa....ata.php?wfo=lot

They are ranked though (temps, precip, snowfall). Temps and precip date back to 1872, snowfall to 1884.

Here's the top 20 least snowiest starts to a snow season for Chicago, through December 31. Snowfall the rest of those seasons, January and beyond, in ( ).

And for reference, 1981-10 total normal snowfall for Jan/Feb/Mar/Apr at ORD is 26.7".

1943-44: 0.3" (23.7")

1912-13: 0.4" (18.7")

1939-40: 0.9" (30.1")

2012-13: 0.9"

1998-99: 1.2" (49.7")

1889-90: 1.3" (20.4")

1936-37: 1.4" (10.6")

1993-94: 1.4" (40.4")

1971-72: 1.5" (45.3")

2003-04: 1.5" (23.3")

2001-02: 1.6" (29.5")

2011-12: 1.7" (17.8")

1923-24: 2.3" (25.3")

1982-83: 2.5" (24.1")

1922-23: 2.6" (18.9")

1905-06: 2.8" (17.8")

1892-93: 2.9" (28.6")

1906-07: 3.1" (26.2")

1990-91: 3.2" (20.3")

1928-29: 3.3" (26.8")

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If you want monthly records for Chicago, you can find them here: http://www.nws.noaa....ata.php?wfo=lot

They are ranked though (temps, precip, snowfall). Temps and precip date back to 1872, snowfall to 1884.

Here's the top 20 least snowiest starts to a snow season for Chicago, through December 31. Snowfall the rest of those seasons, January and beyond, in ( ).

And for reference, 1981-10 total normal snowfall for Jan/Feb/Mar/Apr at ORD is 26.7".

1943-44: 0.3" (23.7")

1912-13: 0.4" (18.7")

1939-40: 0.9" (30.1")

2012-13: 0.9"

1998-99: 1.2" (49.7")

1889-90: 1.3" (20.4")

1936-37: 1.4" (10.6")

1993-94: 1.4" (40.4")

1971-72: 1.5" (45.3")

2003-04: 1.5" (23.3")

2001-02: 1.6" (29.5")

2011-12: 1.7" (17.8")

1923-24: 2.3" (25.3")

1982-83: 2.5" (24.1")

1922-23: 2.6" (18.9")

1905-06: 2.8" (17.8")

1892-93: 2.9" (28.6")

1906-07: 3.1" (26.2")

1990-91: 3.2" (20.3")

1928-29: 3.3" (26.8")

Thanks.

Lots of clunkers in there. Barring a surprise, the hole looks like it will only get deeper in the coming days.

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Thanks.

Lots of clunkers in there. Barring a surprise, the hole looks like it will only get deeper in the coming days.

Eh, half had at around "normal" or better Jan-onward snowfall. Keep in mind the totals I posted in ( ) were January through April, or even May in a case or two.

Anyway, doesn't matter...it doesn't snow at ORD anymore.

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