Wintry weather puts in an appearance Saturday. Chicagoans shiver in the area's coldest
weekend temperatures in nearly eight months (since March) as blustery winds limit
wind chills to the 20s.
Snow flurries will also fly from time to time Saturday -- hardly an unusual occurrence
this time of year. Looking back at 125 years of Chicago snow observations, 110 years
have recorded flurries by Nov. 15. That puts the climatological odds of flurries at 89
percent. Measurable snow is another matter: Only 55 of the past 125 years -- 44
percent of them -- have hosted "sticking" snow here.
Plains residents continue recovering from the mammoth snowfall earlier this week that
left up to 4 feet of snow whipped by 60-70 m.p.h. winds in the Black Hills.
PALOMA WALLOPS CAYMANS; HEADS FOR CUBA AS POWERHOUSE CATEGORY 3
Howling winds from powerhouse, late-season Hurricane Paloma whipped the Cayman
Islands on Friday. Owen Roberts Airport in Grand Cayman reported sustained winds of 44 m.p.h. with gusts that topped 60 m.p.h. Paloma was expected to make landfall in Cuba early Sunday and weaken rapidly.
--Tom Skilling, Chief Meteorologist, WGN-TV/Chicago Tribune
