Just think, I have 100 more horsepower now compared to a 90° day! 
From today's Chicago Tribune: February 08, 2007 - Sub-0° streak hits 7 days; February’s coldest open in 112 years!
There hasn’t been a February in Chicago which has opened this cold in 112 years. The first eight days have averaged only 4.4°—a reading 20 degrees below the 137-year average of 24.4°. Only one Feb. 1-8 period since 1871 has been colder—and it occurred in 1895.
High clouds overnight have restrained the nighttime temperature decline a bit. The clear skies Thursday morning allowed far west suburban lows to plummet as low as -26° at Ogle County’s Rochelle, about 50 miles west of Chicago. Aurora Municipal Airport in west suburban Sugar Grove bottomed out at -17°.
For many across the metro area, Friday marks the 7th day of subzero temperatures—the longest such stretch in 13 years and one of the three longest of any winter season since official records began in 1871.
The bitter arctic air has unleashed unprecedented lake snows downwind of the eastern Great Lakes. Parish, N.Y., has measured 88” since Sunday.
--By Tom Skilling, WGN-TV Chief Meteorologist
From today's Chicago Tribune: February 08, 2007 - Sub-0° streak hits 7 days; February’s coldest open in 112 years!
There hasn’t been a February in Chicago which has opened this cold in 112 years. The first eight days have averaged only 4.4°—a reading 20 degrees below the 137-year average of 24.4°. Only one Feb. 1-8 period since 1871 has been colder—and it occurred in 1895.
High clouds overnight have restrained the nighttime temperature decline a bit. The clear skies Thursday morning allowed far west suburban lows to plummet as low as -26° at Ogle County’s Rochelle, about 50 miles west of Chicago. Aurora Municipal Airport in west suburban Sugar Grove bottomed out at -17°.
For many across the metro area, Friday marks the 7th day of subzero temperatures—the longest such stretch in 13 years and one of the three longest of any winter season since official records began in 1871.
The bitter arctic air has unleashed unprecedented lake snows downwind of the eastern Great Lakes. Parish, N.Y., has measured 88” since Sunday.
--By Tom Skilling, WGN-TV Chief Meteorologist
