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Nam Y. Huh / AP
A jogger runs along a snow-covered street in Evanston, Ill., a suburb of Chicago, on Friday.
More than an inch of snow fell in Chicago Friday, ending the city's 335-day streak of no more than an inch of snow accumulation in one day.
On Friday at 9:30 a.m., 1.1 inches was recorded at O'Hare International Airport, officially breaking the area's snowless streak, according to the National Weather Service.
“Something like this wouldn’t be newsworthy if it wasn’t for the fact it hasn’t snowed all year,” said Gino Izzi, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service.
The last storm of an inch or more occurred was last February, and the previous record stretch of no snow of 310 days was set in 1940, the Chicago Tribune reported. Friday's snowfall also marked the latest it has gone in the season before an inch of snow has fallen.
Besides ending the record streak, the snow created slick roads during the morning rush hour. By 7:15 a.m., state police said they had responded to about two dozen accidents on area roads, the Chicago Tribune reported, including one that involved nine cars. Minor injuries were reported.
The city deployed nearly 200 plow trucks to clear snow and lay salt on the streets, according to a statement from the Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation.
"We’re going to be monitoring the weather but at this point we’re looking at snowfall at least through the rush hour," Streets and Sanitation Spokesperson Anne Sheahan said.
Chicago saw 12.9 inches of snow by this time last year, compared to 2.8 so far this winter. The average is 18.3 inches, the Tribune reported. The next bout of snow was not expected until next week.
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And it still isnt, and didnt they run this same article last weekend ?
The US Drought Monitor predicts easing of the drought that's gripped this area for more than a year now. That's the good news.
However, drought is expected to persist in the Central, South Central, and South West areas of the nation. Drought is the real issue here - especially persistent, year-after-year drought. Last year, drought cost US taxpayers more than $50 billion dollars. That number could easily double this year.
Scooter
We haven't had snow since 1995 - in Jacksonville! LOL
The Great Lakes have lost most of their ice cover over the past 40+ years.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/03/10/10636825-great-lakes-ice-coverage-falls-71-percent-over-40-years-researcher-says?lite
My family is from Upper Michigan, and Lake Michigan used to freeze over US-2 in my grandfather's time. Now the water itself is probably a city block away from where it used to be when I was a kid.
The wider that the channels are dug to let the ships in and out, and to supply outlying states with water, the more that the water is wasted.
(And no, it's not some big China conspiracy about how many gallons of water per day are being bottled... bottling water can't even come CLOSE to matching the amount of water that now rushes out through the canals and waterways. This is basic physics coupled with environmental changes. We have such a victim mentality that it always has to be somebody else's fault. McDonald's is brainwashing us into being fat, movies and videogames make us violent... Sorry, folks--this one is on the United States for messing with its own ecosystem. For once, we ought to own up to our own actions!)
Scotter, if it bothers you so much that non-earthshaking local type events are published, why do you read it, just to have something to bitch about?
StandUp: there a many, many reasons for the current level of the Great Lakes.
The primary one is that the land under the lakes is actually rising, causing the water in the lakes to slowly spill toward the Atlantic.
there is ALWAYS "SNOW" in chicago ,the neighborhood drug dealers push it everyday instead of the plows !
Now remember folks this is a weather article so be sure to mention Global warming and climate change along with guns and of course as many of the standard items on the following list.
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A. Politics on EVERY SINGLE ARTICLE no matter what.( rule ONE BTW)
B. Blame game
C. partial articles
D. name callings
E. Race cards
F. people who rarely if ever read past the headline ( let alone comprehend what they read)
G. people who have absolutely NO idea what sarcasm or humor is.
H. Random acts of stupidity
I. over reaction to everything
J. the vine SP&G / PD ...( you know who you are)
K. people that simply must pick apart posts ( guilty as charged)
L. spin baby spin
M. collapse this post ( bury head in sand approach)
N. gloom and doom
O. "updated articles"
P. people with even sicker "punishment" fantasy's on crime articles.
Q. friends you have never met
R. sworn enemy's ...that again you have never met.( ok this one creeps me out a bit)
S. Poeple who not only can but often do induce headaches
T. People who wade into a discussion HOURS after your orgiginal post
U. people who dont know what the " reply" is for.
V. drunks and dopers who have come to an "enlightenment" they simply must share.
W. those who disparage others place's of residence although most have never been there.
X. Some who actually think before they post ( rare but it happens)
Y. Reactionaries ( opposite of "X") ( ban it folks fit here)
Z. Those who are really concerned and caring. rather then argumentative.( extremely rare but it happens)
. The above was reprinted just for the new people and of course ...just for the Heck of it. Have a great friday folks...I'm outta here....
Uh Mr. IA S-T;
You realize of course Takenada is going to be mad because you left him out, (and now his feelings are going to be hurt.) shame on you.
Hey, you forgot the kitchensink!!!!
Ah, you took the fun out of it IA.
Now how am I supposed to troll anti socialist, anti Islamic, anti immigrant, anti progressive, "humans once rode on dinosaurs 6K years ago", science denying, legitimate rape victim, Mormon NRA members?
Thanks for the partial list scooter, you'll have to do better than that next time.
I.A. I have to admit I like reading your posts. So hilarious. Thanks.
Love it!
Pot: meet Kettle.
IA Scooter - AWESOME POST!! You covered absolutely everything!!
I think I'll have a D an R, an I, an N and a little of K.
its after five and time to have fun.
It waited for me to leave Chicago... but it snowed here in Cincinnati so I didn't completely escape it.
Or you left, before it arrived /sarc/
It snowed and then basically melted. Had the snow been deeper it would have been more difficult to find the empty pistol round casings later this weekend.
Is this the 600 victim year?
GBA
Wouldn't you know it. That new snow blower that I bought last spring only comes with a 334 day warranty.
croc
That is funny!
this will not affect my proclivity. i have great circumference.
I live in the Humboldt Park neighborhood of Chicago and I will attest to the fact that it snowed more than an inch at least 4 times in December but it did not accumulate much. Christmas day, I shoveled snow off our walk. This article is jibberish.
I disagree. I love this article. LOVE it.
Humboldt park is too close to the lake, that's why they use O'Hare as the official recording site.
I live in Chicago and I will attest to having more than an inch of snow on 3-4 days in December. This article is jibberish
Well Humboldt Park is not the center of the Universe, here in Lincoln Park I would say we still have yet to receive 1" of snow in one snowfall. The official site is O'hare Airport. I can guarantee you didn't receive over an inch of snow 3 or 4 times. More likely you think a half an inch is an inch.
The sad part about this article is the story should have mentioned the fact that we have been in a drought situation for the past 2 years. It has caused loss of ag revenue and jobs but we as a nation don't have good reporting anymore.
BFD!
Does anyone really care if it snows in Chicago
Who really gives a crap about this waste of news space? Just cause its about the dump of a city called CHICAGO?
i thought that was how many people were killed in one day in chicago,sorry.
bigbohunk...
As a former Chicago homeboy - I beg to differ.. as cities go, Chicago Rocks!
Lake Shore Drive, the skyline of the best architectural achievements, the universities, the lakeshore... not a bad place at all. I love Colo., but if I HAD to live in a city, in would be in the windy city!
(but the weather usually sucks....)
the politics also suck !!