A storm that made many areas of the Midwest feel more like winter than fall shattered a 96-year-old winter weather record in Chicago.
The historic storm system— which brought snow and cold over the Colorado Rockies this week— made it to the Midwest on Thursday morning, unleashing moderate-to-heavy snowfall in northeastern Kansas, eastern Iowa, Illinois, and southern Wisconsin.
The total accumulation expected in these areas is 3 to 5 inches of snow.
Chicago experienced its earliest snow day of the year where an inch or more of snow fell since October 20, 1989, and smashed its previous record of 0.7 inches at Chicago O’Hare International Airport on Wednesday with a whopping 1.2 inches of snow.
Through 4 pm, Chicago’s had 1.2″ of snow today. This breaks a nearly 100 year old daily snowfall record for Oct 30th, which was 0.7″ set in 1923! This is also the earliest 1″+ calendar day snowfall since Oct 20, 1989 & only the 10th 1″+ calendar day snow this early in season.
— NWS Chicago (@NWSChicago) October 30, 2019
Some areas surrounding Chicago are expected to gain 3 to 6 inches of snow by Thursday, according to the National Weather Service in Chicago.
The Winter Weather Advisory continues for parts of north and northeast Illinois today. Snowfall totals of 3 to 6 inches and poor visibility are possible leading to hazardous travel conditions into this afternoon. As always, snowfall reports are always appreciated! pic.twitter.com/tNhSyqNrbV
— NWS Chicago (@NWSChicago) October 31, 2019
The city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, also set a new weather forecast record on Thursday at 7 a.m. when 1.1. inches of snowfall was measured.
Its previous record was 0.4 inches in 1926. Meanwhile, in Wisconsin’s state capitol of Madison, another snowfall record for October was shattered when a total of 5.5 inches was reported on Thursday morning.
Previously, the city’s October record was 5.2 inches in 1917.
The snowstorm is forecast to spread across Michigan’s Lower Peninsula and into northern Indiana and northwestern Ohio through Thursday evening.
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The IPCC says:
“The climate system is a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore the long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible.”
– IPCC TAR WG1, Working Group I: The Scientific Basis
“…we should recognise that we are dealing with a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore that the long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible.”
– IPCC TAR Chap 14, Exec Summary
Their words, not mine…..
Alarmists classify unseasonal low temperatures as merely ‘weather’. However, high temperatures, even in Summer, are always attributed to climate change.
and meanwhile in the Windy City it snows for Halloween witches and their black cats keeping warm by the fire while snowmen go trick or treat
Hottest year evah!
Be cautious about citing snowfall events to be indicators of prevailing cold weather. While it is true that you can’t have snow without freezing temperatures, it is also true that snow will not be possible without a mass of warmer, moisture-laden air coming into contact with the cold air mass in some way. That there is record snow at this early phase of Autumn is significant, but it is mainly illustrative of the convergence of differing air masses as the seasons change. It really tells us nothing about the long-term trend of climate.
@Boxorox – that is of course 100% true. Short term localized weather events, even highly unusual ones, do not represent evidence with respect to long term climate trends. It should be noted though that the climate hysterians never shy away from using the weather for their alarmist propaganda barrages.
Absolutely. Weather is not Global Warming.
But everytime there is a hurricane or tornado, some reporter is spouting off about Global warming alarmism. So that knife cuts both ways.
As a real physicist rather than consensual computer game scientist it seems obvious to me the approach of Ludecke and Weiss is self evidently likely to be very close to reality (3 solar cycles, no detectable CO2 signature in the Fourier analysis of 2,000 years of proxy realities, and is thus an excellent deterministic basis to forecast the climate, that models that forecast change we don’t observe by assuming the wrong cause aren’t in fact.
The prediction of this approach is for temperatures to now fall for 30 years.
Although Chicago is weather, of course, the global changes are tiny compared to local weather extremes.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xxzejq7vb7c88nz/Ludecke%20und%20Weiss%20Graph.png?dl=0
Colorado set some major records this last week between bitter cold and snow. We set new records for low temperatures with some below zero in Denver and record low highs–Wednesday’s high was a cold 18F. Today we are finally out of the deep chill but temps are barely over freezing when they should be around 60F! So much for global warming, er climate change–but then I guess the Michael Manns out there could say this was predicted as part of climate change!
We read about it here in the UK. Meanwhile, currently UK is mild for a short period, about 56F by day, but forecast to turn cold next week with snow further north. UK aims to be “zeroc carbon” by 2030-2050 the latest. Impossible of course.