Coolest April close here in 10 years
April hasn’t closed here with a daytime high any cooler than Saturday’s predicted 53° reading in a decade—since 1995, when Chicago recorded an April 30 maximum temp of just 50°.
Temperatures this time of year generally top out in the 60s. And, the cooler-than-normal air mass, with origins over Canada’s northern tundra, isn’t likely to leave anytime through early next week. Some of the area’s cooler inland nighttime lows will actually flirt with records in coming nights. Sunday morning’s 33° low is within striking distance of the record of 30°—a World War II era reading set in 1943.
The chilly air isn’t limited to the Midwest. A storm, with rains which bypassed Chicago to the south overnight, left 24.5” of snow at Jamestown, Colo., (in the mountains near Boulder) and 17.6” of late-season snow at Estes Park.