Tuesday, January 22, 2013Good morning crew,
It was 1 this morning. Not one-in-the-morning, it was 1 degree Fahrenheit when I got in my truck to come to work. While that is damn cold it is not a record for the Chicago area in January.
For that we have to go back to 1985. On the morning of Jan. 20 of that year the official temperature plunged to minus 27 degrees, the city's lowest reading ever.
Compared to that I can practically go outside in shirtsleeves in this weather. A record we have beaten recently is a lack of snowfall. Barely one-and-a-half inches of snow has fallen so far this season in the Chicago area. In order to get close to that we would have to go back 114 years to 1899.
I don't mind not having to scrape snow off my truck every other day, but if it keeps up it will make for some really dry ground come spring. The farmers won't be happy about that.
Laugh it up,
Joe
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