STORM SUMMARY 12-2-2015
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STORM SUMMARY 12-2-2015
There were some scattered showers prior to midnight on 12-1. Rain spread into
The area 12-2am before becoming all snow for areas north of I88 3-4am. It took longer for the conversion of rain to snow to occur further south in Will and southern Cook Counties. The forecast had called for the heaviest activity to occur Between 4and 9am and that is exactly what occurred. Pavement temperatures Especially south of I90 never went below 32 so the majority of the accumulation Mentioned below was on non paved surfaces. There was a little more slushy accumulation further north. Many areas south of I88 only had wet pavement. By 9am, surface pavement temperatures rose into the upper 30s to mid 40s so no Further accumulation occurred even though the last of the flakes did not end till 2pm for Rockford and ended from west to east across Chicago area 3-5pm.
Snowfall totals:
ORD 1.3 RFD .9 Woodstock 3.5 Yorkville 3.4 Harvard 3sse3.0 Aurora 4se (4 miles southeast) 3.0 Bartlett 2.9 Elgin 2.9 Lake Zurich 2.7 Bull Valley 2.7 Elburn 2.7 Marengo 2.6 Wonder Lake 2.6 St. Charles 2.6 Woodstock 5nw 2.5 Mundelein 2.5 Plainfield 5sw 2.5 Roselle 2.5 Winfield 2.4 New Lenox 2.4 Cortland 2.4 Barrington 2.4 Elgin 2w 2.3 Roselle 1w 2.3 Carol Stream 2.3 Gurnee 2w 2.2 Buffalo Grove 2.2 Gurnee 2ne 2.2 Naperville 1nw 2.2 North Aurora 2.1 McHenry 2.0 Algonquin 2.0 Riverwoods 2.0 Lake Cilla 2.0 Geneva 2.0 Mt. Prospect 3ne 2.0 Palatine 1e 2.0 Harvard 2.0 DeKalb 2.0 Aurora 2.0 Antioch 1.9 Mendota 1.9 Batavia 2wnw 1.9 Geneva 3wsw 1.8 Botanic Gardens (Cook) 1.8 Plainfield 1sw 1.7 Fox Lake 1.7 Elgin 1.7 Lake Villa 2wsw 1.6 Beach Park 1.6 Lisle 1.6 Romeoville 1.5 Lincolnshire 1.5 Batavia 1wnw 1.5 Oswego 5sse 1.5 Bolingbrook 1.5 another total for DeKalb 1.4 MDW 1.4 Joliet 1.4 Downers Grove 1.4 Elk Grove Vlg 1.4 Willow Springs 1.3 Westmont 1.3 Waukegan 1.3 Batavia 1wsw 1.3 Sugar Grove 1.3 Elk Grove Vlg 2wsw 1.3 Hoffman Estates 1.3 Genoa 1.3 Lisle Morton Arb. 1.2 Naperville 4ssw 1.2 Homer Glen 1.2 Harwood Hts 1.1 Plainfield 1.0 Morris 1.0 Darien 1.0 Somonauk 1.0 Park Ridge 1.0 Manhattan .9 Elmhurst .9 La Grange Park .9 Lincolnwood .9 New Lenox 3e .8 Elmhurst 2se .8 Minooka .7 Coal City .6 Lockport .5 Crete .5 Worth .5 Oak Lawn .5 Joliet .4 Park Park .4 Monee .3 Chicago Ridge .4 Rogers Park .9 Glen Ellyn 1.4