2013-03-05 Snowfall Totals
“After a record slow start to the winter snowfall, Old Man Winter has really decided to go out with a bang! Check out the graph below that show this winter’s YTD snowfall versus normal. Notice how the HUGE snowfall deficits that we had been running all winter have literally been wiped out in the last 4 weeks!”
Taken from the National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office
March snow is not unusual in northern Illinois and northwest Indiana. In Chicago, the normal March snowfall is 5.6 inches and the seasonal normal is 36.7 inches. So about 15 percent of Chicago’s snow falls in March. For Rockford, the normal March snowfall is 4.8 inches, or 13 percent of the annual normal of 36.7 inches.
In Chicago there have been 45 snow storms that produced at least 10 inches of snow, since snowfall records began in 1886. Six of them, or 13 percent, were in March. The largest March snowstorm in Chicago history was 19.2 inches on March 25 and 26, 1930. It was the 5th biggest snowstorm in Chicago history.
As of midnight March 5, 2013 there was 9.2 inches at O’Hare Airport. This is the biggest March snow in Chicago in a calendar day since 11.5 inches fell on March 2, 1954. This is the most snow in the month of March since 11.2 inches fell in March 2002.
As of midnight AM March 5 there was 9.6 inches in Rockford. This is the biggest March snow in Rockford on a calendar day since 10.4 inches fell March 29, 1972. This is the snowiest March since 10.4 inches fell in March 1999.
Taken from the wgn weather blog Posted on: March 6th, 2013 5:34 AM by Tim McGill
“After a record 9.2” of snow for the date at O’Hare yesterday and the most snowfall there since the Groundhog Day Blizzard of 2011, we are just about caught up on snowfall for the season. Yesterday’s snow brings the season to date snowfall to 29.5″, just 1.2″ shy of average and almost 10″ more compared to last winter at this point. It was an incredible turnaround. We have seen 88% of this season’s snow (26.0″) since February 1st.”
Taken from the wgn weather blog Posted on: March 5th, 2013 10:01 PM by Tom Skilling
