Chicago: January Was Among Coldest Months On Record

[Purveyor]

January 2009 enters the record books as the city's 10th coldest. Its average temperature of 15.9 degrees makes it the coldest January since 1994.

Saturday's high of 38 degrees was the month's peak reading, making it the first January since 1985 and only the ninth since 1871 with so low a maximum temperature.

--CLIP
Major thaw expected by week's endMilder weather appears headed for Chicago by the end of the week as a westerly flow of Pacific air approaches. By Saturday highs could surge into the 40s here for the first time since Dec. 30, bringing a chance of rain to the city.

Chicago Tribune: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/weather/chi-tom-skilling-explainer-01feb01,0,7817489.story

[ensho]

1. climate change sucks, Key West is COLD. I have an attitude

nt

[jmg257]

2. Damn global warming. NY is fricking freezing too! nt

[ComtesseDeSpair]

3. Yeah, I've been loving the cold...

I'm dreading the warm weather to come later this week. It's gonna be a mucky mess out there.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

4. While out in CA...

it was one of the warmest, driest. :( The last few weeks of January were positively spring-like -- balmy, clear blue skies with a very light breeze -- I was out working in the yard in shorts.

A total disaster for a State already deep in drought.

[ensho]

5. yes I read a report on Calif. drought this a.m.

when the water goes, Calif. food crops go.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

9. It is very, VERY bad here.

My Mom lives up in Tahoe. The Sierra snow pack is where we get a great deal of our water from and there has been NO snow so far this year, just one minor storm that dusted things a bit. And the fall was not much better -- there is NO snowpack right now up there -- zip. Valley farmers are already underplanting in anticipation of water restrictions that will be hitting us.

It is going to be very ugly year for us here -- and food availability and prices will surely be effected.

[corruptmewithpower]

6. January was unusually warm here in San Diego

Had to use air conditioning half the month. Send us some cold wind please.

[ThomWV]

7. This has been the most prolonged and consistantly cold winter I've seen here

This winter started early, heavy snow before Thanksgiving, and it has remained continously colder than normal and with snow more often than in earlier years. It just won't quit, either rain, sleet, or snow.

[ComtesseDeSpair]

10. Not in Chicago

We haven't had any decent snow in at least two weeks, maybe longer. Old snow is still on the ground, but nothing new. I've been quite sad about that. Nothing depresses me more than going more than a few days without snow in the wintertime.

[polmaven]

8. I heard It was so cold...

That Blagojevich was seen with his hands in his OWN pockets!!!! :scared: