These shots provided to us by Steve Bolich certainly capture the flavor of Sunday afternoon and evening's weather in Chicago. The weekend storm, which deposited 1.13" water equivalent precipitation at Midway Airport, including 2.9" of snow Sunday at the South Side site and a storm total of 4.2" fell on the northwest side at O'Hare, generated a real atmospheric cocktail—including sleet and snow which started in the city at 4:53 pm, reports official NWS-Midway observer Frank Wachowski, then turned to freezing rain and sleet and then ALL rain late Saturday night, before shifting back to heavy snow Sunday afternoon and evening. Other area 3-day storm snowfall totals included:
Antioch 11.4"
Bull Valley 9.0"
Crystal Lake 7.6"
St. Charles 7.0"
Mundelein 6.4"
Harvard 6.0"
McHenry 5.3"
Barrington 5.6"
Elgin 5.5"
Aurora 5.3"
Lake Village, IN 5.4"
Oak Brook 4.1"
Skokie 3.1"
Peotone 3.0"
Park Forest 1.2"
Valparaiso 0.8"
Many thanks to my CLTV colleague Mike Hamernick and our NWS COOP
Observers for contributing to this preliminary list.
NOte: Posted 4 pm Monday, February 26, 2007
Tom Skilling
WGN-TV Chief Meteorologist
