Dangerous Cold Settling In; Wind Chill Advisory On Tap Overnight
Brutal, bone-chilling cold was seizing the Chicago area on Wednesday, and the city won't see any release from the icy grip of this arctic blast for more than two days.
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Brutal, bone-chilling cold was seizing the Chicago area on Wednesday, and the city won't see any release from the icy grip of this arctic blast for more than two days.
A mass of arctic air will send temperatures plunging into the single digits during the day Wednesday and Thursday, and below zero at night both days. Thursday's high will be only about 5 degrees, which would break a record set in 1936, when the high temperature was 9 degrees on Feb. 19.
Roads have been tough to negotiate, as wind has blown hard at times, and lake effect snow has been piling up.
Snow, frigid temperatures and 45-mph winds could make for a grisly Thursday morning in parts of northwest Indiana, the National Weather Service warned.
The temperature will continue to drop through the day Wednesday, falling into the mid-20s by the afternoon, according to the National Weather Service. That's warm compared to Thursday, when the high is only expected to reach into the single digits and low teens.
A cold weekend is in store for Chicago, with temperatures and wind chills expected to approach the lowest recorded so far this year.
Not only was this weekend's blizzard the 5th largest snowstorm in the city's history, it also made the past week the 8th snowiest week on record for Chicago.
As if more than a foot-and-a-half of snow over the weekend wasn't enough, more snow was on the way for the south suburbs, parts of the South Side, and northwestern Indiana from Wednesday morning through Wednesday afternoon.
Here are the total snow fall amounts measured by National Weather Service observers for the snowstorm that lasted from Saturday night until Monday morning.
The wintry mix that peppered the Chicago area late Tuesday and overnight was expected to turn into snow by 7 a.m., according to the National Weather Service.
If you were in Chicago 30 years ago today, there's a good chance you were either hiding under your blankets, or bundled up in more layers of clothing than Randy from "A Christmas Story."
Halfway through the winter, snowfall totals and cold temperatures hardly compare to Chicago's brutal winter of 2014, though temperatures have been slightly below normal, forecasters say.
Compared to last week's bitter cold, this weekend is shaping up to be a tropical heat wave.
While the mercury should rise back above zero late Thursday morning, and subzero temperatures shouldn't return until Saturday, Thursday afternoon will bring a return of snow.
A frigid blast of Arctic air has plunged wind chills so low, it has made it dangerous to go outside for an extended period of time.
Photographers have been having a field day along the lakefront and Chicago River, capturing images of the swirling mist over the water, known as sea smoke or frost smoke. It might be called smoke, but it's just water vapor.
As skies cleared and plows worked to clear streets and highways of the latest round of snow, a fresh round of frigid weather was settling in on the Chicago area Tuesday morning.
Frigid cold early Monday was only the first real taste of winter for the Chicago area this year. A winter storm Monday night could dump up to 6 inches by Tuesday morning.
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A storm moving through the Gulf Coast on Tuesday should make its way to the Midwest on Wednesday, and bring a very thin band of heavy snow with it as temperatures drop below freezing.
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