Chicagoans rise to another damp, gray November day Tuesday. The month is historically the city’s second cloudiest of the year. But this November has been especially cloudy with only 32% of its possible sunshine on the books—half the sun in the same period a year ago and well below the monthly normal of 40%. It’s a development which continues to take a toll on Chicago temperatures.
November, like predecessors September and October, is running cooler than normal and a stunning 9.5° colder than the opening days of November a year ago. If the trend continues, this will mark the first time in over two years—since June, July and August in 2004—that three consecutive months have posted temperature deficits.
Monday’s 43° reading was the 15th daytime high since September 1 to finish below 50°. There had been only two such days by this date a year ago.
--By Tom Skilling, WGN-TV Chief Meteorologist
