Dear Tom,
My co-worker said it has snowed in Chicago as late as June. Can you please let me know when (years, dates)?
Farhan Ahmed, Downers Grove
Dear Farhan,
Snow has fallen in Chicago in June–just once–and Chicago weather historian Frank Wachowski confirms it.
Wachowski opened the city’s official record books to June 2, 1910, and tells us that a latespring thunderstorm rumbled across the city, probably during the early morning hours (the records do not provide a specific time for the event), and brought rain, hail and snow pellets.
Only a trace of snow was reported (an amount of snow too small to be measured).
Chicago’s high and low temperatures on June 2, 1910, were a chilly 55(degrees) and 43(degrees), and the thunderstorm delivered 0.41″ of precipitation.
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