Oh, sorry, it's "Climate Change" now, that way it 'xplains both da heatin' and da coolin'. How convenient...
Thursday's record-tying 0(degrees) at O'Hare the earliest in 3 decades
Tom Skilling
December 7, 2007
Not since 1976--a period of more than three decades--has Chicago's official temperature dropped to 0(degrees) so early in a cold season. For five minutes beginning at 4:04 a.m. Thursday morning, Chicago's official temperature bottomed out at 0(degrees)--a reading which tied the 1972 record for December 6. The frigid benchmark isn't typically reached here for another three weeks and didn't occur for another two months a year ago. The first 0(degrees) waited until a -6(degrees) low was recorded Feb. 3 earlier this year. The combination of clear skies, dry air, a fresh snow cover and light winds was behind the sub-zero readings which occurred at a number of west and NW suburban locations early Thursday.
The week's third snow, part of a system which left up to 4.5" on the ground in Iowa, arrived in a weakening state Thursday evening. The 3-5 hour snowfall was predicted to deposit 1-2" in the Chicago and end well before sun-up Friday.
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Tom Skilling is chief meteorologist at WGN-TV. His forecasts can be seen Monday through Friday on WGN-TV News at noon and 9 p.m.
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John Coleman has studied it. John Coleman knows he is correct.
I had my first winter-pot-hole-induced flat tire of the season this morning. If global warming is real, why are my pants dirty?
If your pants are dirty for real then why are my hands chapped?
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