O'Hare International Airport, 15-20 miles outside of downtown, recorded 2.8 inches of snow. While areas of the Midwest and Plains saw over a foot of snow from the previous storm, Downtown Chicago's streets stayed largely clear with a mixture of rain, sleet and wet snowflakes. NEXT CROSS-COUNTRY WINTER STORM TO PRODUCE RENEWED ROUNDS FO HEAVY SNOW, SEVERE WEATHER

Weather models show impressive lake-effect bands setting up to add even more snow. 'Meanwhile, an increasingly tight pressure gradient … will lead to very strong winds that will create very dangerous/near blizzard conditions with this system.'

'By Friday, it will be a powerful storm, perhaps even stronger than the one we just saw, moving into the Great Lakes' echoed meteorologists at the FOX Forecast Center. 2011, the last time other Great Lakes locations such as Milwaukee and Detroit were under a Blizzard Warning. The last time Chicago was under a Blizzard Warning was Nov. The FOX Model shows 20- to 30-mph sustained winds, and the NWS in Chicago wrote that gusts could be as strong as 45-50 mph. Those conditions must continue for at least three hours to be considered an official blizzard. The combination of strong winds and heavy snowfall could mean blizzard conditions for the Midwest.īlizzard conditions mean that visibility is reduced to less than a quarter mile with wind gusts of at least 35 mph.

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