On Saturday, October 4, unseasonably cold weather brought Chicago the third earliest snow flurries on record.
The two earlier snow flurries in records compiled starting in 1881 occurred during the last week of September, the first in 1928 and the second in 1944.
The city of Rockford, 90 miles north west of Chicago and the state of Illinois' third largest city, recorded its second earliest snow fall, just missing the 1951 record of October 3.
The chill that brought Chicago's early snowfall was the coldest weekend in six months and hit temperatures that were some 20 degrees colder than the normal and 30 degrees colder than the previous weekend.
Sunday's temperatures warmed to 57 degrees, closer to average temperatures.
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Heavy snows typically do follow a really hot summer.
ReplyDeleteGlobal Warming on track?
ReplyDeleteAnonymous Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteHeavy snows typically do follow a really hot summer.
October 7, 2014 at 12:17 PM
Why do you think that?
Armchair climatologists are in these comments, look out everyone.
ReplyDelete1:39-Because that has been a 200 year track record that has never failed yet.A cycle of some sort that has nothing to do with global warming.In my opinion nature has it's checks and balances that involve both extremes.Extreme heat precipitates extreme cold and vice versa.
ReplyDeleteThe artificial high front off the western coast of California is stationary. It has not and will not move!
ReplyDeleteThis means the jet stream is being pushed further north in the west, which leads to further south pressure on the jet stream in the middle of the nation.
Look for lots of precipitation in the Mississippi river valley. The California precipitation has been migrated toward the east.