November to remember.
From this morning's Chicago Tribune:
By Katherine Rosenberg-Douglas
Winds of change ended the November heat wave Tuesday with some severe storms, but Chicago first set records for warmth, including for seven consecutive days at 70 degrees or higher.
Well before noon, the city passed the record high for Nov. 10 of 71 degrees set in 1949, according to the National Weather Service.
As the cold front that broke the heat wave advanced Tuesday, strong storms started hitting northern Illinois mid-afternoon Tuesday, including some with 70 mph wind gusts, triggering tornado warnings. By midnight, temps were expected to drop to the 30s and 40s. The high Wednesday is forecast at a more typical 49.
There had never been so long a stretch of 70-plus-degree days so late in the year since the weather service began record keeping in the city in 1871, according to Todd Kluber, a meteorologist with the agency. At 10:12 a.m., when it warmed to 70 degrees at O’Hare International Airport, the city’s official weather recording site, 2020 made that historic first. Myriad other warm-weather records were set this week .
Among them, the weather service announced Tuesday, was a new record high minimum temperature. The previous record for Nov. 9 was 59 degrees in 1999, which was bested by this year’s daily low of 63 degrees. It also ties the record high minimum temperature for any November day, joining Nov. 6, 1924, and Nov. 7, 1975.
Yesterday I recorded a high of 74°, this morning it dropped to 34°. Yesterday evening we received .63" of rain and a lot of wind.