We in Chicago just had 22 consecutive days below 32 degrees. That’s the longest streak in 23 years. 1984-85 had a string of 33 below freezing days (whoa, 33 days).
You’d think this was one of the coldest 3-week periods in Chicago ever. No. It’s only 15th.
From Tom Skilling’s blog:
These 22 days were like an endurance test. Bearing on. Always bundling up. We all wondered how long it would last. February is always the hardest month of the winter, because we’ve had all this cold weather already in November, December, and January. It starts to get old. February is like endurance month. Funny how it’s the shortest month. Rather convenient.
That stats about the 22 days comes from Tom Skilling’s blog as well: http://blogs.trb.com/news/weather/weblog/wgnweather/2007/02/mondays_42_ends_longest_sub32s.html
One of my coworkers is expecting a baby the first week of September. It’s amazing to think in the midst of this frigid weather that by the time the baby pops out, it will have gotten warmer (maybe even up to 100 ) and then it will start to cool off again.
1982, 1983 and 1985 were in the top 10. Wow. I can say I endured three of chicago’s harshest winters when I was in grade school. What about the winter of 1994? I remember that being especially harsh when we were freshmen at IWU. In fact, that’s the only really cold winter that I can remember specifically.
Reading this makes me cold! Brrrr! I think it may be the coldest since I’ve been here!
Yup. Don’t miss that at all. Former Chicagoan Current Angeleno 🙂