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Is it me or does Chicago not get many clear days in summer/spring? It can start out sunny or clear at dawn, but clouds will always come in and make it partly cloudy or high clouds. Just something I noticed. And in winter it can be clear but its often very cold then.
Is it me or does Chicago not get many clear days in summer/spring? It can start out sunny or clear at dawn, but clouds will always come in and make it partly cloudy or high clouds. Just something I noticed. And in winter it can be clear but its often very cold then.
If you want clear skies with insane heat and humidity with fewer clouds, go to the western portion of the Midwest by the Great Plains.
Florida's weather outside of the Winter is becoming more and more like Texas. Meanwhile the Great Lakes and interior Northeast has summers increasingly like that of the Southeast. Even With the El Nino and Negative NAO conditions have been decidedly summer like in my location since the beginning of April. These conditions would likely remain until at least the middle of October; although last year fall arrived at the calendar schedule only to recede again into outright summer for the second half of October and first half of November, leading to a decidedly pathetic winter apart from the two blizzard just before thanksgiving and Just before Christmas from which my location did not receive any snow except for a coating as we are outside of the main lake snow belts. The Two years before that had summer like conditions right into Mid-November.
In my part of the Great Lakes, late October was a bit warmer than average, but still cool and much more like fall than like summer, with a daily mean of 45F for Oct 16-31, which is more like Atlanta's January than Atlanta's late October. We did have a few days reach the high 60s in late October, but the nights were still cold. The first half of November was more unusual, since it was just as warm as late October, averaging at 44F, which is only about 10F cooler than what would pass as normal for early Nov in Charlotte, NC.
This year, we have had some interesting early season heat, especially in April, but we've also had a good bit of cooler weather, so April was 2.5F above average, but then May was 0.7F below average, June was 0.4F below average, and July is thus far 1.4F below average, meaning that the period of April to July has been overall, average, compared to our 1980-2010 normals. Currently, July here has a mean (66.6F) that is closer to an Atlanta April (63.2F) or an Atlanta October (64.7F), than to an Atlanta May (71.2F), let alone an Atlanta summer (~80F).
Is it me or does Chicago not get many clear days in summer/spring? It can start out sunny or clear at dawn, but clouds will always come in and make it partly cloudy or high clouds. Just something I noticed. And in winter it can be clear but its often very cold then.
The cloudiest month of the year is January and the sunniest is July
Our falls have been getting sunnier but our spring and summers have been getting cloudier
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Totally sunny days are a delightful, but fairly rare, commodity in Chicago, with the city’s long-term annual average at 45 days, according to Chicago climatologist Frank Wachowski. February typically posts the fewest days with unlimited sunshine, averaging just less than three, while October provides the most, averaging 5.5. Chicago’s longest string of totally sunny days is 10, from July 21-30, 1916, a month that delivered 95% of the possible sunshine with a record 24 totally sunny days. The city’s all-time dreariest month was November 1985, which provided just 16% of possible sunshine
Another round of HHH (Hazy-Hot-Humid) for the East Coast/I-95 states it looks like:
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ
301 AM EDT Thu Jul 27 2023
DEZ001-NJZ015-017>019-PAZ070-071-102-104-106-272015-
/O.UPG.KPHI.EH.A.0001.230728T1000Z-230729T0200Z/
/O.NEW.KPHI.EH.W.0001.230728T1000Z-230729T0200Z/
/O.CON.KPHI.HT.Y.0001.230727T1500Z-230728T1000Z/
New Castle-Mercer-Gloucester-Camden-Northwestern Burlington-
Delaware-Philadelphia-Eastern Chester-Eastern Montgomery-
Lower Bucks-
Including the cities of Wilmington, Trenton, Glassboro, Camden,
Cherry Hill, Moorestown, Mount Holly, Media, Philadelphia,
West Chester, Kennett Square, Norristown, Lansdale, Morrisville,
and Doylestown
301 AM EDT Thu Jul 27 2023
...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO
6 AM EDT FRIDAY...
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM TO 10 PM EDT
FRIDAY...
* WHAT...For the Heat Advisory, heat index values up to 104
expected. For the Excessive Heat Warning, dangerously hot
conditions with heat index values up to 108 expected.
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Baltimore MD/Washington DC
825 AM EDT Thu Jul 27 2023
...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING...
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY MORNING
THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING...
* WHAT...For the Heat Advisory, heat index values up to 107
expected. For the Excessive Heat Watch, dangerously hot conditions with heat index values up to 110 possible.
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