Christmas Weather for Northern Illinois: Statistics for Chicago and Rockford
Chicago:
The following statistics comprises 136 years of data, however snowfall data began in 1885, so it is composed of 123 years of data. Data collection began at the University of Chicago, then at Midway, and currently at O'Hare which is now the official station for Chicago.
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Frequency distribution of snowfall for Chicago. This dataset shows that the most frequent amount of snowfall recorded on Christmas is 0.0”, which accounts for 46% of the days in the dataset. The next most frequent range is a Trace, followed closely by 0.1” to 0.9”. The highest amount of snowfall recorded on Christmas occurred in 1950 when 5.1” of snow fell. Last year, no snow fell.
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ADDITIONAL CHRISTMAS CLIMATE DATA ( * MEANS LAST OCCURRENCE)
MAX TEMP |
MIN TEMP WARMEST |
PCPN WETTEST |
SNOW MOST |
64 1982 |
46 1936 |
0.50 1909, 1950 |
5.1 1950 |
56 1895, 1936 |
42 1877, 1940 |
0.47 1982 |
5.0 1909 |
55 1971 |
36 1982 |
0.38 1957 |
4.3 1933 |
52 1891, 1893, 1994 |
35 1881, 1888 1941, 1957 |
0.35 1949, 1973 |
4.1 1951 |
50 1877, 1940 |
34 1891, 1913 1923, 1973 |
0.34 1877, 1879 1965 |
3.9 1935 |
49 1932 |
33 * 2005 |
0.32 1951 |
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47 1889 |
32 1911, 1912 1932, 1979 |
0.28 1933 |
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46 1943, 1946 |
31 1907, 1922 1949, 1954 |
0.26 1903 |
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45 1922, 1954 1957, 1959 |
30 * 2006 |
0.22 1882 |
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44 1881, 1973 |
29 * 1987 |
0.20 1964 |
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MAX TEMP COLDEST |
MIN TEMP COLDEST |
PCPN DRIEST |
SNOW LEAST |
-5 1983 |
-17 1983 |
0.00 * 2007 |
0.0 * 2007 |
2 1985 |
-11 1985 |
T *2006 |
T * 2006 |
6 1924 |
-8 1980 |
0.01 * 1978 |
0.1 * 1949 |
9 1996 |
-7 2000 |
0.02 * 2004 |
0.2 1929, 1948 1995, 2001 |
10 1892, 1902 |
-6 1924 |
0.03 * 2005 |
0.3 * 2004 |
15 1878, 1879 1899, 1977 |
-3 1984 |
0.04 1918, 1934, 1944 |
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16 1914 |
-2 1892, 1903, 1935 |
0.05 1898, 1979 |
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17 1980, 2000 |
-1 1914, 1990 |
0.07 1940 |
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18 1884, 1900 1968, 1993 |
0 1944, 1977 |
0.08 2002 |
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19 1984, 2004 |
1 1968, 1996 |
0.09 1947, 1967 |
Updated 12/19/2008 TJH and ACS