The city's official snowfall totals for the first day of the Blizzard of 2011 are in and the blinding snowfall has been a record breaker.
At O'Hare the official snowfall total on Tuesday was 13.6 inches which breaks the city's daily monthly snowfall record for the entire month of February which was set just last year when 12.6 inches fell on February 9, 2010. O'Hare Airport measured 10.6 inches of snow between 6pm and midnight which equates to a snowfall rate of 1.75 inches per hour.
Midway Airport also set a daily snowfall record for the month of February. The 11.9 inch snowfall there shattered the old mark of 9.7 inches established on February 13 ,2007 when 9.7 inches fell.
The blizzard conditions are expected to continue across the city overnight and into Wednesday morning with finall total expected to be in the 16 to 24 inch range.
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