The official snowfall for Tuesday was 12.6 inches, measured at O’Hare International Airport, which set a new daily record snowfall for the month of February. The last record for daily snowfall for February in Chicago was 11.5 inches, set on Feb. 18, 1908.
The National Weather Service says the snowfall also shattered a record for total snowfall on Feb. 9. The last record was set in 1885, when 8.5 inches of snow fell in Chicago.
Tuesday was also the seventh greatest calendar day snowfall ever in Chicago, the National Weather Service reported. The list of the greatest daily snowfalls is topped with snowstorms of legend – Jan. 2, 1999; Jan. 13, 1979; and Jan. 26, 1967. The other daily snow totals greater than Tuesday were in 1939, 1918 and 1930.
(Source: CBS Chicago)
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Toronto got 1/25 of that, didn’t even affect driving
so now we can make all those needling remarks about New York that New Yorkers make about Canada?
hey mr. gore , what was that you were saying about global warming??
Global warming is so COOL! get it? COOL?!?