Just drove down from Milwaukee back to Chicago. Roads are terrible as expected. Multiple accidents on 94 and 41 had several inches of snow cover.
Very disappointed in LOT’s performance with this event.
If you’re not in the northwestern part of Cook county, you officially have below average snowfall
https://w2.weather.gov/climate/getclimate.php?wfo=lot
This winters gets a B for me.
Downtown Chicago will likely end up with normal to slightly below normal snowfall by the end of the season. Areas just to our north and west will be closer to the 125-150% of normal range. We were not in a favorable spot this year, period.
The two redeeming pieces of this winter were the historic cold and the feb ice storm, otherwise this winter would be solidly a C
I know there have been some good events, but for some reason it doesn’t feel that way. Perhaps it’s the comparison to areas just north and west, I just feel like we’ve been skipped over, as well as lower Michigan.
Don’t mean to be rude, but do you choose to live there? Must you stay there for a specific reason, or do you want to be there? This is clearly a risk to all residents in the belts, even if it’s a once in a decade occurrence.
They’ve had a couple good ones in a row now. I’d argue the northern Indiana/central Illinois/Chicago crews have gotten the shaft the past several winters in a row. What’s even more frustrating is when your snow total is overstated time and time again by a certain airport 17 miles to my northwest...
This has been the winter of eastern Iowa/QCA and southern Wisconsin. Similar to last winter. Don’t worry, we will get our chance once again, and those folks will be left with cirrus :p