By Meteorologist Tom Skilling
Snow is predicted to fall for a time this morning over the northern suburbs north into southern Wisconsin while a wintry cocktail of rain, ice pellets and some wet snow is possible from roughly I-80 north into the city proper. To the south, much of the precipitation is to come down in liquid form.
Where the bulk of Tuesday morning's snowfall occurs---most likely to the north of the city proper---it's to fall on comparatively warm ground and therefore to melt .
Four Februarys since 2000 have had even less snow by now
The month has had abysmally little snow with just 1.8 inches on the books. A typical February produces around 9.1-inches of snow overall.
With such limited snowfall to its credit, February 2012 ranks among the 28 least snowy months to date over the 127-year official snowfall record in Chicago.
Only four other Februarys since 2000 have had as little or less snow by the 20th of February.
February 2012 ranks 7th warmest of the past 54 years (since 1959) at O'Hare; 16 of month's first 20 days have finished "warmer" than normal
While February snowfall is down in nearly every corner of the WGN area, temperatures this month are actually running well above normal. It's the warmest February in the Chicago area in the 6 years since since 2005. The month's mean temperature of 25.1-degrees is 7.2-degrees warmer than the city's 141-year average.
Monday's high of 45-degrees marked the 8th time this month temperatures in the city have soared above 40-degrees.
Snow system swiping sections of the metro area produced flashes of overnight lightning near the Quad Cities; also generated up to 4.7 inches of snow in North Dakota
Heavier bursts of snowfall to Chicago's west overnight led to some respectable snow totals. Lightning accompanied some of the snow bursts near the Quad Cities area late Monday.
Snow accumulated over a wide swath of Nebraska, Kansas, far northern Iowa and South Dakota with the eastbound storm Monday.
As much as 4.7-inches of snow had fallen at Valley City, N.D. by late Monday while Cayoga, N.D. was hit was 4.5 inches of snow.
The week's second disturbance Wednesday night into Thursday is to tug colder late week air into the metro area .
Snow is predicted to fall for a time this morning over the northern suburbs north into southern Wisconsin while a wintry cocktail of rain, ice pellets and some wet snow is possible from roughly I-80 north into the city proper. To the south, much of the precipitation is to come down in liquid form.
Where the bulk of Tuesday morning's snowfall occurs---most likely to the north of the city proper---it's to fall on comparatively warm ground and therefore to melt .
Four Februarys since 2000 have had even less snow by now
The month has had abysmally little snow with just 1.8 inches on the books. A typical February produces around 9.1-inches of snow overall.
With such limited snowfall to its credit, February 2012 ranks among the 28 least snowy months to date over the 127-year official snowfall record in Chicago.
Only four other Februarys since 2000 have had as little or less snow by the 20th of February.
February 2012 ranks 7th warmest of the past 54 years (since 1959) at O'Hare; 16 of month's first 20 days have finished "warmer" than normal
While February snowfall is down in nearly every corner of the WGN area, temperatures this month are actually running well above normal. It's the warmest February in the Chicago area in the 6 years since since 2005. The month's mean temperature of 25.1-degrees is 7.2-degrees warmer than the city's 141-year average.
Monday's high of 45-degrees marked the 8th time this month temperatures in the city have soared above 40-degrees.
Snow system swiping sections of the metro area produced flashes of overnight lightning near the Quad Cities; also generated up to 4.7 inches of snow in North Dakota
Heavier bursts of snowfall to Chicago's west overnight led to some respectable snow totals. Lightning accompanied some of the snow bursts near the Quad Cities area late Monday.
Snow accumulated over a wide swath of Nebraska, Kansas, far northern Iowa and South Dakota with the eastbound storm Monday.
As much as 4.7-inches of snow had fallen at Valley City, N.D. by late Monday while Cayoga, N.D. was hit was 4.5 inches of snow.
The week's second disturbance Wednesday night into Thursday is to tug colder late week air into the metro area .
