why winter in chicago is working for me

let us offer praise that this is steering clear of us for awhile!



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Current mild spell: One for the record books
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Tom Skilling, WGN-TV chief meteorologist

January 5, 2006

In the 15 days from Dec. 22 through today, Chicago's afternoon temperatures have
ranged from 35 to 47 degrees. Many would say that's hardly a bargain--but
consider that the city's normal daily high now is 30 (degrees), and daily
readings in January climb into the 40s on only one day in four.

It has not been spectacularly mild since Dec. 22, but it has been persistently
mild--and that's the story.

Chicago's daily high temperatures have remained consistently at or above 35
(degrees) since Dec. 22, a feat which has been accomplished only twice before
(Dec. 22-Jan. 5 of 1877-78 and 1907-08) in 135 years of official temperature
records for Chicago.

Daily minimum temperatures, too, have remained exceptionally high in recent
days.

The city's normal daily low now is 15 (degrees), but since Dec. 23 the
temperature has averaged 34 (degrees), fully 19 degrees above the normal level.

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snow and ice, your kind ain't wanted 'round hur!