Dear Tom,
Living in Chicago during the summer of 1969 I seem to remember that it rained nearly every weekend. Am I correct?
-Mike Becker
Dear Mike,
Your question intrigued us and after checking it out with the help of Chicago climatologist Frank Wachowski we found that you are absolutely correct. Some rain was recorded on an astounding 11 of the 14 weekends (79 percent) of meteorological summer (June, July, August) in 1969---and 6 of those 11 weekends recorded rain on both days. Every weekend in June and July logged at least one rainy day. Only August brought some relief from the rainy weekend syndrome with three dry weekends and two having only one day with rain.
That summer's two rainiest weekends were June 7 and 8 when 2.10 inches fell and July 26 and 27 with 1.59 inches.
Living in Chicago during the summer of 1969 I seem to remember that it rained nearly every weekend. Am I correct?
-Mike Becker
Dear Mike,
Your question intrigued us and after checking it out with the help of Chicago climatologist Frank Wachowski we found that you are absolutely correct. Some rain was recorded on an astounding 11 of the 14 weekends (79 percent) of meteorological summer (June, July, August) in 1969---and 6 of those 11 weekends recorded rain on both days. Every weekend in June and July logged at least one rainy day. Only August brought some relief from the rainy weekend syndrome with three dry weekends and two having only one day with rain.
That summer's two rainiest weekends were June 7 and 8 when 2.10 inches fell and July 26 and 27 with 1.59 inches.
