'I don’t know if you remember the 1970s, but those winters were barbaric,' Skilling told the Tribune Wednesday.
WGN-TV chief meteorologist Tom Skilling is shown at his Edgewater home on Jan. 16, 2021.
A: You so accurately point out that January is typically our coldest and one of our snowiest months and home to some of our blockbuster historic snowstorms, not the least of which is the benchmark blizzard of 1967 that shut the city down.And, of course, the Chicago Machine-defeating Jane Byrne-Michael Bilandic blizzard in 1979, which was part of the winter that produced more snow than any other winter here.
I mean, they had a temperature over the weekend of 80 below zero in Siberia, which broke a record there. And that’s the same area that was up over 100 degrees two summers ago, in 2021. I remember one night we had to push my car from the parking lot into a back garage at WGN to allow it to warm up. They used to doin that garage so they had a big turntable that they put the cars on as the announcer told you about the latest deal. Well, that’s the same garage into which we pushed my car and after a couple of hours, I could finally get it going again.
Yes, there is a possibility of cold outbreaks. In fact, we’ve got a pattern change coming later next week that will bring colder air and now, at this point, it doesn’t look like it will be of the same intensity of December’s cold outbreak. But we’ve got to watch that.It’s interesting.
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