just about five inches less than five inches from the single snowiest winter of all time couple of the models pinpointed on the left-hand sigh show you we could get up to seven inches. the top snowiest weekend of all time. keep in mind the boston marathon around the corner. also the famed city s st. patrick s day parade just a couple of weeks away. they ve got feet of snow on the ground on the sidewalks. certainly something worth noting as we head in toward the middle of march. here s what february looked like. bitter cold for the united states. buffalo, cold ever month ever. chicago, montreal ever february ever. toronto failed to reach the freezing mark for the first time since 1978. of course with all this said we have tremendous snow on the ground across the country. 63% of the united states has at least one inch of snow on the ground. snow is a fantastic coolant meaning that it reflects 80 foster 90% of the sun s energy 80% to 90% of the sun s energy.
emanuel has 42.9% of voters and garcia has 38.5%. perhaps most telling more than 18% are still undecided. that is a high level of undecided after a runoff election. the city s first ever mayor runoff is set for april 7th. another winter storm socking the midwest and northeast this morning. get this there s another one waiting in the wings. meteorologist pedram javaheri has been tracking the storm for us. john and christine. good morning. here we go again. the case is a february to remember. new york city the average temperature for february is 24 degrees. that is the coldest in eight decade decades. toronto did not reach the freezing mark at all for the month of february. the first time since 1978. here you go. washington 41. new york we make it to 37. sad when that is a warming
where you see the darker purple shaded areas, those are the regions where we expect some of the heaviest precipitation. for boston this could spell out perhaps the number one season where they have seen the most snowfall since snowfall records have been kept in boston. but there may be a little bit of light at the end of the tunnel. we re expecting those temperatures these are in degrees fahrenheit. we see by sunday now we re seeing the temperature boost up to above that freezing mark. in the latter half of next week more definitively. new york city the temperature may bounce around but running well below average. then as we go into the latter half of next week, those temperatures look substantially warmer. this is from our i-reporter. jay is in boston in the financial district. this is a view from his office.
minus 8 in chicago and maybe a foot of snow in michigan with this next alberta clipper that will come to new york and boston in the morning. not likely more than an inch here but that snow expected to come during the morning rush. rob marciano, abc news. aaron hernandez was once a star tight end for the new england patriots. today he s going on trial for murder. prosecutors say he orchestrated the killing after semi pro football player in 2013. more than 1,000 potential jurors began the screening process today. among potential witnesses, former coach bill belichick. or his former coach. he s still the coach. and also team owner robert kraft. another nfl player to tell you about for a different and amazing reason. robert conrad played for the dolphins for five years. wednesday night was fishing off palm beach, florida. he fell into the water and his boat drifted away from him. they called the coast guard. an hour search came up empty. he was found later on the beach. he had swam bac
but the big story, 73 million people under wind chill warnings and advisories. 45 below zero not out of the question in and around minneapolis. there you go chicago, high temperature, that is minus one. notice it warms up to 13 and then drops to three. and tries to warm up. there s the freezing mark where it should be this time of year. even for their standard impressive chill. schools this chicago, indianapolis and areas of detroit, the schools have been closed in minneapolis as well. at least public schools all closed because of the brutally cold wind chills in place. any time the wind chills are in these levels five ten minutes and frostbite is going to happen. notice the jet stream dip thing