A testament to just how cool the 2009 summer has been is the number of days that temperatures have reached at least 80 degrees at O'Hare International Airport. The city has not recorded an official high of 80 degrees since Aug. 25, a string not seen here in nearly 125 years, when readings were taken downtown near Lake Michigan's cooling breezes. To date, there have been just 51 days of 80 degrees or higher in Chicago this year, the fewest on record here in the 50 years since records began at O'Hare in 1959. In contrast to this summer's paltry count of 51, the city logged 103 warm days in 2005 and 101 in 2007.
The weather has also been dry with only 0.03 inches of rain in the last 10 days. A few showers may dampen the Indiana and southern suburbs Wednesday but a more general- coverage rain pattern should begin to evolve by this weekend into next week as a frontal system approaches.
Cloudbursts hit Kansas-High winds in Texas
It was anything but dry in portions of south-central Kansas Tuesday as heavy thunderstorms swamped the area. Eureka measured 6.50 inches while nearby Benton recorded 5.66 inches. In the Texas Panhandle thunderstorm wind gusts reached 67 m.p.h. at Childress and 61 m.p.h. at Lubbock.
The weather has also been dry with only 0.03 inches of rain in the last 10 days. A few showers may dampen the Indiana and southern suburbs Wednesday but a more general- coverage rain pattern should begin to evolve by this weekend into next week as a frontal system approaches.
Cloudbursts hit Kansas-High winds in Texas
It was anything but dry in portions of south-central Kansas Tuesday as heavy thunderstorms swamped the area. Eureka measured 6.50 inches while nearby Benton recorded 5.66 inches. In the Texas Panhandle thunderstorm wind gusts reached 67 m.p.h. at Childress and 61 m.p.h. at Lubbock.
