{"id":14116,"date":"2017-02-14T11:44:28","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T16:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/?p=14116"},"modified":"2017-02-14T11:44:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T16:44:28","slug":"chicago-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/chicago-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Aren&#8217;t We Getting Much Snow in Chicago?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"arIndex_0\">Not that we&#8217;re complaining, but it&#8217;s definitely out of the ordinary. When you&#8217;re from around here and you nearly make it to spring without enduring at least one epic blizzard, it certainly doesn&#8217;t go unnoticed.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_1\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p id=\"arIndex_2\" dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">40 degrees in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/chiberia?src=hash\">#chiberia<\/a> and I saw two people wearing dresses without tights. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/aggressive?src=hash\">#aggressive<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_3\">\u2014 Morgan (@theridereadings) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theridereadings\/status\/828792096530243584\">February 7, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"arIndex_4\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_5\">\n<p id=\"arIndex_6\">Especially since we were expected to have &#8220;above normal snowfall,&#8221; according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.almanac.com\/weather\/longrange\/IL\/Chicago\" target=\"_blank\">Old Farmer&#8217;s Almanac<\/a>, which predicted more snow than usual for Illinois, other sections of states in the Lower Great Lakes region, and upstate New York. The Almanac also predicted a particularly frigid winter for Illinois, with cold temperatures reaching a peak between mid-December and mid-February.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"arIndex_7\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/mean-tweets-chicago-winter\/\" target=\"_blank\">These #Chiberia tweets will make you glad to have had a mild winter.<\/a><\/h3>\n<p id=\"arIndex_8\">Call it climate change, or just call it luck. We&#8217;re no experts, but what we&#8217;ve observed instead is a pretty bearable winter, with bouts of snowfall and below-zero temperatures interspersed throughout December and early January, but nothing bearing semblance to the snowpocalypse winters that we&#8217;ve regularly seen in previous years. In fact, it&#8217;s been about two months to-date since we actually had an inch of snowfall, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NWSChicago\/status\/830936780400635904\/photo\/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">according to a tweet by the National Weather Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_9\">Typically averaging out at about 10.8 inches, this past January was one of the least snowiest Januarys in Chicago history, as there have only been a handful of times we&#8217;ve seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weather.gov\/lot\/Chicago_Jan_Snow_Rankings\" target=\"_blank\">less than an inch of snow during that month in over a century<\/a>. Rather, we had a stint of pleasantly mild temperatures ranging from the high-50s to the low-60s for a few days last month (those are always great).<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"arIndex_10\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago-winter-memes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Check out this compilation of the best Chicago winter memes.<\/a><\/h3>\n<p id=\"arIndex_11\">The Farmer&#8217;s Almanac predicts that the next round of snowfall will hit us mid-February, which is basically now. But based on the mid-50s to low-60s temps that are slated for this weekend, that may not be the case.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_12\">Hey, we&#8217;ll take it.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_13\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not that we&#8217;re complaining, but it&#8217;s definitely out of the ordinary. 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