Chicago experienced tornadoes in February and March, multiple rounds of severe storms in April, flash floods in July and September, and a lack of snowfall to end 2023. Here’s a look at the most extreme days in Chicago weather this year, with insights by the National Weather Service’s Chicago office and Trent Ford, Illinois state climatologist. Hottest: 100 degrees Aug. 24, 2023 Temperatures at .
Now this sounds like a nice change of pace: Instead of the usual harsh, gloomy winter with icy blasts of wind and dirty snow piled up into April, northern Illinois may be on track for some welcome relief. Let’s go, El Nino. We’re counting on you to deliver some mild weather for our famously chilly metropolis, even as you wreak havoc elsewhere around the world. El Nino refers to a warm-up in .
Chicagoans woke up Sunday morning to snow blanketing their cars and homes and a winter weather advisory in place. As flakes fell on one of the busiest travel days of the year, some might have assumed it’s a harbinger of tough winter conditions to come. But scientists say that’s probably not the case. Measurements indicate that a “strong” El Nino is brewing through the Northern Hemisphere, with .
There’s a slight cool breeze in the hallways of the largest residential building in the city’s 49th Ward. But when Susan Hoffman steps inside her apartment at the senior living facility in Rogers Park, the heat closes in and the air stands still. Hoffman, 71, waves her hand over one of her two air conditioning units connected to the building’s central cooling system. She walks to the second .
“A lot of the places got rain that was over a number of hours. Better soaking rains that were able to infiltrate the soil and improve our soil moisture conditions,” state climatologist said.