STORM SUMMARY 3-1&2-14.

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STORM SUMMARY 3-1&2-14.
March came in like a lion in 2014. The system produced two periods of snowfall. A brief band of snow moved through between 2 and 5am. Amounts ranged from less than an inch south burbs to 1.5 inches north. The second band was the more significant band which developed from Rockford the Lake County late am and early afternoon before spreading southward and covering all areas by late afternoon. The snow diminished 4-7am on the 2nd. Temperatures started out in the upper 20s to lower 30s between midnight to 3am. Temperatures lowers to the lower 20s 5-7am. Readings continue to slowly fall to the lower teens by 9pm. Total snow accumulation was mainly in the 3-5.5 inch range.

Snow amounts in the am:
Lake Villa 1.1 Fox Lake 1.4 Harvard 1.9 Beach Park 1.3 Algonquin 1.0 Waukegan 1.0 Lincolnshire 1.0 Wauconda 1.3 Rockton .9 Schaumburg .8 Mundelein 1.4 Palatine .8 Riverwoods .9 Park Ridge .8 Inverness .8 Lincolnwood .6 Lisle .7 Buffalo Grove .9 Harwood Hts .5 Glenview .9 Westmont .5 Elmhurst .6 Elk Grove Vlg .6 Downers Grove .8 Oak Park .5 Arlington Hts .8 Batavia .6 St. Charles .6 Sugar Grove .3 Plainfield .2 Cortland .4 Lombard .6 Elgin .7 Homer Glen .2 Darien .4 Bartlett .4 Oswego .2 North Aurora .5 Bolingbrook .2 Lockport .2 Burr Ridge .3 New Lenox .1 Crete trace Naperville .7 Highwood 1.0 ORD .6 Romeoville .2 RFD 1.2 Aurora .2 Barrington 1.0 MDW .3 DKB .3 Elburn .5 Genoa 1.5 Oak Brook .5 Spring Grove 1.1 Yorkville .4 Woodstock 1.4 Joliet .2 Lake Zurich .9 Westmont .3

Snow amounts 2nd period: Mundelein 3.0 Harwood Hts 3.5 Park Ridge 4.1 RIverwoods 3.9 Schaumburg 3.8 Bartlett 4.0 Cortland 3.3 Elk Grove Vlg 3.0 Westmont 4.0 Glen Ellyn 4.0 Batavia 4.3 Inverness 4.5 Darien 4.1 North Aurora 4.5 Yorkville 3.0 Lombard 4.0 St. Charles 4.6 Lincolnwood 4.0 Lisle 4.0 Sugar Grove 3.4 Countryside 4.0 Lincolnshire 4.0 Elburn 4.0 Geneva 3.9 Oak Park 3.0 Carbon Hill 3.1 Elgin 4.2 Roselle 3.6 Manhattan 3.7 Bolingbrook 3.6 Glenview 4.1 Orland Park 3.3 Peotone 3.0 Lake Forest 4.2 Fox Lake 3.7 Lake Villa 3.4 Burr Ridge 3.1 Worth 2.5 Hoffman Estates 3.8 Palos Park 3.0 Algonquin 3.0 New Lenox 3.8 Crete 2.8 Chicago Ridge 2.9 Harvard 3.8 Buffalo Grove 3.8 Downers Grove 4.0 Alsip 3.0 Park Forest 3.4 Beach Park 3.5 Oswego 3.0 Waukegan 3.0 Lockport 3.0 Plainfield 3.5 Wilmington 2.0 Naperville 3.9 ORD 4.5 Romeoville 2.6 RFD 3.4 Aurora 5.0 Botanic Gardens 4.5 MDW 3.8 Elburn 4.0 JOT 3.0 Oak Brook 4.4 Mundelein 2.8 Plainfield 3.1 Spring Grove 3.0 Willowbrook 3. Yorkville 3.4 Northbrook 4.1

Storm totals:
ORD 5.1 RFD 4.5 Romeoville 2.8 Northbrook 4.5 Kankakee 2.3 Belvidere 3.8 Elburn 4.6
Somonauk 4.0 Marengo 4.0 Mt. Prospect 4.0 Bartlett 4.4 Naperville 4.6 Crystal Lake 4.8
Schaumburg 5.6 Highwood 5.2 Beach Park 5.0 MDW 4.1 Peotone 3.0 K Downers Grove 5.1
Frankfort 4.5 Crete 2.8 Joliet 3.2 Algonquin 4.0 Elgin 4.9 Westmont 4.3 Park Ridge 4.9
Spring Grove 4.1 Yorkville 3.8 Oak Brook 4.9 Darien 4.5 Spring Grove 4.1Elk Grove Vlg 3.6
Oak Park 3.5 Buffalo Grove 4.5 Burr Ridge 3.4 Glenview 5.0 North Aurora 5.0 Aurora 5.2
Lincolnwood 4.6 Lombard 4.2 St. Charles 5.2 Lincolnshire 5.0 Bolingbrook 3.6
Lisle 4.7 Lake Villa 5.5 Oak Park 3.5 Countryside 4.0 Lake Zurich 5.4 mdw 4.1 DKB 3.5
New Lenox 3.9 Park Forest 3.4 Palos Park 3.0 Lockport 3.0 Manhattan 3.7