1-9-14
They call it a “Polar Vortex.” We had below-zero weather for two days and three nights.
January 5th – that night it started dropping but good. -17 by 03:00 CST. That was the coldest night. -13 was the high temperature on January 6th. It was also the low temperature on January 7th.
I’ve worked in downtown Chicago since Christmas of 1997. This is the 1st time I have seen the Chicago river freeze over. There is snow piled everywhere, and 10″ on the ground, at least. A propylene-glycol loop froze up at our biggest site in the city. And I started on-call at work on the 3rd.
It’s kind of amazing to work night shift in weather like this. Oh, did I mention the 25 MPH winds? Yup. That too.
We had a big solar flare last night that was supposed to pull Aurora Borealis all the way down to Central Illinois, but no luck; it was clouded-over to the North this morning.
Dan
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