With bursts of heavy snow that lasted for hours Tuesday evening, O'Hare airport officially recorded 12.6 inches of snow on Tuesday, with snow still occurring as Wednesday began. This is the biggest snowstorm, at O'Hare since last year when 12.0 inches fell in a 2-day storm on January 9-10 2009. Much of the snow came during the evening hours when snow was falling at the rate of about about one inch per hour. Through 7 pm O'Hare had logged only 5.1 inches of snow.
The 12.6 inch snowfall on February 9 marks the city's biggest official calendar day snowfall since 18.6 inches fell on January 2, 1999. This is also the most snowfall ever recorded in a calendar day in February in Chicago breaking the old record of 11.5 inches on February 18, 1908. Midway picked up 8.8 inches for the day making this the 4th greatest February calendar day snowfall on record there.
How long is this current El Nino pattern going to last??