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2023 was the year of record heat temperatures

  • Dec 27, 2023

Five summer floods earn 1 in 1,000 year title, NWS says

  • Aug 26, 2022

Chicago snow storm causes issues on roads

  • Jan 2, 2022

Chicago snowstorm this weekend could dump upwards of 5 inches

  • Jan 2, 2022

LIVE: Chicago snowstorm this weekend could dump over 9 inches

  • Jan 1, 2022

Chicago snow storm this weekend could dump over 8 inches

  • Dec 31, 2021

Chicago area gets 1st accumulating snow of season

  • Dec 29, 2021

1st measurable snow of season expected Tuesday

  • Dec 28, 2021

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2020 was 5th warmest on record for Chicago

  • Jan 3, 2021
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Chicago Accuweather: Record high temperatures set Thursday December 26

  • Dec 26, 2019
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Record high temperatures set Thursday morning: weather service

  • Dec 26, 2019
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  • Sep 20, 2019
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'Bomb cyclone' storm barreling toward Chicago

  • Mar 14, 2019
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  • Jan 2, 2019

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2020 goes down as 5th warmest year on record for Chicago

2020 will go down as the 5th warmest year on record for Chicago!

  • Jan 3, 2021

Chicago could see longest stretch of 70-degree days in November ever

A week or more of 70+ highs in November has never happened before, ABC7 meteorologist Larry Mowry says.

  • Nov 6, 2020

2020 hurricane season breaks 1916 landfall record with Hurricane Delta

Five hurricanes and five tropical storms have impacted the United States and our neighbor to the east holds its own record too.

  • Oct 11, 2020

2 simultaneous hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico have not happened, NOAA says

The record keepers at NOAA have been digging all the way back to when their records begin in 1851. They can't find it ever happening before.

  • Aug 22, 2020

NOAA: January 2020 was Earth's hottest January on record

"In the span of 141 years of climate records, there has never been a warmer January than last month," the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced Thursday.

  • Feb 13, 2020