Record Warmth in Chicago Area....30 degrees above normal

[Stuart G]

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Chicago establishes a new record and its first official 80-warmest here in 6+ months
By Tom Skilling on April 1, 2010 1:46 PM | Permalink


It's official! It may be April Fools Day--but this is definitely not a joke. We've established a new record high for the date in addition to welcoming the first official 80+ degree temperature since September 15. The mercury first reached 80 at 12:49 p.m. and proceeded to 83-degrees just over an hour later at 1:53 p.m. breaking the previous record of 82-degrees set in 1946. Other Chicago readings at 2 pm include Midway Airport's 82-degrees and the 78-degrees at the lakefront. The city's official high is likely to end up at 84-degrees--a reading 31-degrees above normal and more typical of June than early April. Other 2 PM Chicago area temps off our Weather Bug network include 83 Buffalo Grove, 82 Itasca & New Lennox; 81 Fox Lake,Lansing & Downers Grove; and 80 at Kenosha, Winnetka & Elmhurst. This level of warmth is VERY unusual at this time of the year. An in-house analysis indicates this is only the 12th year of past 140 to produce an 80 this early. The normal high is 53-degrees.

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While an occasional warm day is unusual in this area, several in a row are very unusual. Tomorrow is supposed to be just as warm, and yesterday was in the upper 70s
I do not recall in my lifetime (I am 64) this many very warm days in a row this early. In the past, one day, then back to the 50s..

[marybourg]

1. Well below normal in Phoenix area at 66 deg. nt.

[Bobbieo]

8. Same here in Yuma! Supposed to be 50 degrees tonite for the low.

[Warpy]

9. Mid 40s tomorrow in New Mexico

That cold air is only supposed to be here for one day and start working its way back east.

I'm so sick of winter. This has been a cold, grey, nasty winter that just seems to be hanging on and on.

[PSzymeczek]

10. Barely cracked 50 here in Cochise County.

In the 30s tonight, and our furnace died.

[MUAD_DIB]

2. Now after our second "hundred years storm" in two weeks the weather guys are

predicting that we may have a Bermuda high. That is not seasonal by any means.

[mucifer]

3. Yeah it was a nice day here. Pretty weird. But, in Chicago it often snows in April.

Chicago has lots of weird weather.

[Stuart G]

4. True, but there has been weird weather all over the country..A friend of mine

who taught science in a suburban high school, says the abrupt change in the jet stream is what caused this as well as the incredible moisture out east. As well as those very unusual snow amounts in the southeastern part of the country.

He told me that this global warming phenom is the change of the jet stream, and the fast paced extreme changes in weather. He started teaching "global warming" in the late 70s and early 80s.

He studied it at length and agrees completely with all the science that exists. The very unusual cold in Florida, where he lives, is also a result of jet stream changes. He also says it will not get better. I sure hope that we do not have another summer like 95..Hundreds died from the heat. It was no joke.

[PSzymeczek]

11. Don't I know it!

And whatever it's doing on the lakefront, it's doing more of it in the NW Suburbs. April of '75, the lakefront got 6" of snow, but Elgin/Carpentersville/Dundee got 18".

[ConcernedCanuk]

5. I think we are in for a hot dry summer up here in Northern Ontario

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Temperatures are way above normal,

and our snow is almost gone.

We had a very light snowfall this winter overall, so I expect not much rain this summer.

Rain comes from the evaporation of the moisture on the ground, and seeing as it's almost dry already . . .

I think we are going to be pretty dry this summer.

[Stuart G]

6. Many very long hot days in a row this summer could be very dangerous

to those living in northern cities who are not prepared for them. Yes, there are people who do not have air conditioning, and cannot afford the electricity even if they had it. Sadly, poverty and joblessness are increasing. Just read the rest of the forums here.

[ConcernedCanuk]

7. 95 degrees in my trailer today

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I do have an air conditioner that I put in the window last summer, but takes the generator to run it

never thought I might be installing it this soon,

but a few more days like today,

I'll be putting it back in

APRIL!!

would have never thought of A/C for April way up here . . .

[ashling]

12. Must be all that Chicago Style Politicin' goin on (sarcasm)

since the election of Barack Obama :sarcasm: