Beach Park covered in snow
Here's an amazing photo from Jonathan Friend who says small tree limbs were snapping off trees in Beach Park. ...
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Beach Park covered in snow
Here's an amazing photo from Jonathan Friend who says small tree limbs were snapping off trees in Beach Park. ...
Read more ›Moby the beagle loves all the snow
Thanks to Emily Logue of Western Springs for this shot of her dog, Moby, enjoying his morning walk through the snow. ...
Read more ›Moby the beagle loves all the snow
Thanks to Emily Logue of Western Springs for this shot of her dog, Moby, enjoying his morning walk through the snow. ...
Read more ›It’s official- The Saskatchewan Screamer has left the building- all advisories have been taken down
The season's biggest snowstorm (in the north portion of the Chicago Metro area) is over with only some lingering light snow and flurries falling in southeast portions of the metro area early this afternoon. ...
Read more ›Wintry scene in Bartlett
Joy Gustafson passed along this shot taken at her home this ...
Read more ›Band of heavy snow to impact morning commute
An area of heavy snow, with visibilities reduced to a half mile or less will be rotating southeastward across the chicago metro area during the morning commute. ...
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Rain falling over central Illinois and spotty freezing drizzle/fog to the west of Chicago early this morning.
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Read more ›Winter Storm Watch replaced with a Winter Weather Advisory
by Mike Hamernik ...
Read more ›Northeast illinois and extreme northwest Indiana remain under a Winter Storm Watch for 4 to 9 inches of heavy wet snow (see outlined area on map below) expected to begin later this afternoon with the main snowfall tonight. Dense Fog-gray shaded-this AM.
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Read more ›Winter’s third snowstorm threatens the Chicago area; wind-whipped 4 to 9 inch accumulations of heavy, wet, "heart attack" snow possible
By Meteorologist Tom SkillingThursday's deceptively quiet open belies the fact the Chicago area appears headed for a period of wild winter weather, which could include intense, possibly thundery snowfall and an accumulation which could rank among the winter's heaviest. For only the third time this season, winter storm watches were hoisted late Wednesday covering ...
Read more ›Wintry cocktail for Thursday
A band of heavy wet now will fall from the Dakotas through southern Minnesota and northern Iowa through southern Wisconsin and the northern tip of Illinois into Lower Michigan Thursday, as low pressure tracks out of the northern plains southeast through Missouri and then up the Ohio River Valley. In the Chicago metro area - a Winter Storm Watch has been issued for Thursday afternoon and nigh. A cloudy and r ...
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ASK TOM WHY: The Blizzard of ’79 and the Blizzard of ’78
Dear Tom,I remember the Blizzard of '79 that brought more than 20 inches of snow to Chicago and northwest Indiana. Why do people in Knox, Ind., call it the Blizzard of '78?---Thom Morin, Knox, Ind.Dear Thom,There were two major blizzards to hit the Midwest during the brutal winters of the late 1970s. While Chicagoans focus on the Jan.... ...
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