Chicagoland Snow Totals 3/3, 3/4, and 3/5
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Storm summary 3-3, 3-4 and 3-5
Off and on flurries and snow showers on 3-3 with trace amounts. Surface temps rose into the upper 30s to lower 40s during the daylight period which left surfaces only wet. Additional snow showers dropped down from Wisconsin prior to dawn into Lake and Cook Counties. This activity Produced a trace to under ½ inch. Again surface temps rose into the mid 40s by mid am which melted everything although some folks may have put down some salt early am.
AMOUNTS for 3-4: as of 7am Beach park .4 .1 Downers Grove trace Peotone trace Plainfield trace Ord .4 RFD .1 Romeoville .1 Barrington t, MDW t, DKB t, Genoa t, La Grange .5 Oak Brook .1 Plainfield .2 Willowbrook t, Yorkville trace Elgin .1 Joliet .1 Wauconda trace Waukegan 1.5 Sheridan .5 Lockport .2 Oak Park .1 New Lenox .1 Westmont t, Bartlett .1 Homer Glen .2 Crete .1 Montgomery trace, Downers Grove .2 Glen Ellyn .1 Harvard t, Lake Villa t, Algonquin t, Gurnee .2 Elburn t, Sugar Grove t, Palatine trace Schaumburg trace Chicago Ridge t, Elk Grove Vlg trace, Oswego t, Aurora t, Batavia .1Geneva .1 Lincolnshire .t, Park Ridge t, Lisle .1
Much like Saturday 3-3, surface temperatures shot up into the lower 40s by9-10am on 3-4 as surfaces became just wet. Surfaces did cool back down below 32 during the evening hours. Another round of snow showers and flurries late afternoon into the night on 3-4 produced
Some additional accumulation in spots. Barrington trace, Beech Park 1 Gurnee 1.2 Waukegan .8 Lincolnshire .2 Bull Valley .4 Lake Villa .1 Palatine .1 Inverness .2 Lincolnwood .2 Geneva .1 Riverwoods .4 Lincolnshire .1 Schaumburg .1 Park Ridge .1 Oak Park .1 Rolling Meadows trace Wonder Lake .3 DKB .1 Elgin t Worth trace Elk Grove Vlg .1 La Grange Park trace Aurora t, Bartlett .2 Oswego t, Montgomery t, St. Charles t, Cortland .3 Barrington t, Botanic Gardens .2 MDW .2 Elburn t, Harvard t, Mundelein .3 Lake Zurich .3 Wauconda trace