For the third consecutive day also the unseasonably high temperatures in Chicago continuous to break records on Sunday.
According to the National Weather Service, at 1:02 p.m., temperature at the O’Hare International Airport hit 66 degrees. That balmy number just beat the record of 65 degrees set in the year 1930, though the temperatures on Sunday continued to climb, showing the final record could be even higher.
About an hour before that, Rockford saw the temperature of 64 degrees, eclipsing the previous record that was also set in the year1930.
On Saturday, Rockford reached the temperature of 59 degrees at 11:12 a.m., while O’Hare saw the temperature of 63 degrees just 13 minutes later, breaking the record set in the year 1981. The Saturday’s temperatures continued to climb, and the city saw 70 degree warmth in the February for just the fourth time since 1871, according to the National Weather Service.
Around at 1 p.m. on Saturday, the National Weather Service noted O’Hare’s 68 degrees meant that Chicago was warmer than Los Angeles, Phoenix, Arizona (60 degrees) and Tallahassee, Florida.
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The weekend’s record-breaking temperature streak began at 1:30 p.m. on Friday, when 62 degrees at the O’Hare shattered high set all the way back in 1880.
On Monday the temperatures could reach 60 degrees yet again, even as the chance for storms increases through the evening. Once the showers move out of the area by the Tuesday afternoon, the warmth will likely return for what could be a fifth straight day of temperatures in the 60s.
The city’s unusual warmth comes during a winter that has seen remarkably a little snow. This January saw just 0.6 inches of snowfall well below, the month’s average snowfall is 5.2 inches.
Through the mid-December, Chicago area saw the 17.7 inches of snow, making the winter snow total 18.3 inches – 7.3 inches below the average.
Chicago could see the first flakes of the month by the next weekend, as forecast models show an area of low pressure moving in amid rainstorms on late Thursday, bringing in the colder air and possibly snow.
The high temperatures on Saturday, the coldest day of the week, could hover around 36 degrees before another warm up to start in the next week.
By Mrudula Duddempudi.
