It was a meteorological gift at a time of year better known for cold and snow. The level of warmth observed across the Chicago area Monday ranked among the rarest of the rare in December. Temperatures at 70-degrees and higher are exceedingly rare in December---it's happened only twice before on Dec. 3, 1970 (71-degrees) and Dec. 2, 1982 (71-degrees).
Further underscoring the rarity of such unseasonable warmth is the fact that of the possible 4,405 December days that are part of the city’s 142 year observational record, there have now been just 3 days on the books with temperatures at or above 70-degrees!
Chicago’s temperature reached the 70-degree mark at 2:14 pm at Midway Airport and at 2:44 pm at O’Hare.
Midway’s peak reading was to end up reaching 72-degrees, blowing past all of the South Side site’s previous highest December temperatures to become the month’s warmest on record since observations began there in 1928.
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