We just have some light snow and still-below-normal temperatures in the forecast for the next few days... a pretty quiet weather pattern. Instead, I thought I'd blog a little more about our recent cold snap.
The lowest wind chill Rockford experienced in the past few days was -35°. Now, we've mentioned a couple times that this is based on the new wind chill scale, and that the old one had values that were much colder than reality. The coldest wind chill ever in Rockford was -72° (old wind chill scale) on January 20, 1985. Using the newer scale, that translates to about -50°. So, there have been colder wind chills than what we experienced this week... but definitely still bone-chilling.
At 9pm on Wednesday, Rockford's temperature dropped to 0°. It did not get back to 0° until midnight Friday night for a total of 51 hours. (Now, you could argue that it was 52 hours including 12am-1am Friday night... but I'm assuming a constant change in temperature, so after midnight it would have gotten higher than 0°.)
Finally, we went from -25° Friday morning to 27° Saturday afternoon ... a rise of 52°. That is one of the largest two-calendar-day rises ever recorded in Rockford.
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...and thank goodness for that 52°temperature rise, enough to thaw my frozen water pipes...
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