Talk:Climate of Chicago
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[edit] Weather Changes
I would like to know why exactly the weather fluctuates so dramatically in Chicago. The fact that it does is mentioned but no explanation is provided.
[edit] Wind?
What, no mention of winds in an article about the climate of the Windy City? Loganberry (Talk) 15:59, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
- I've added a paragraph on winds and the history of the Windy City nickname. InNuce 02:35, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Precipitation
In the article it mentions that August is the rainiest month, but in the table is shows that June is, by far, the rainiest month. So which is it really? bob rulz 21:40, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
- August is the wettest month. The data in the table comes from weather.com, run by the Weather Channel, and the data in the text comes frmo Tom Skilling, the chief meteorologist at the Chicago Tribune. I was planning on reconciling the article by adding the Tribune data into the table, but I've encountered difficulty in obtaining the Tribune data again, so I'm still waiting. I'll change it next time I have a chance. RyanGerbil10 (Drop on in!) 22:08, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
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- I've updated the table to reflect the current "official" 30-year Chicago averages as recorded by the National Climatic Data Center. I also updated the text to match these numbers. It turns out the weather.com data originally used for the table are for the old Meigs field reporting station. Meigs hasn't been the official Chicago station for over 40 years; I suspect that's why the numbers seem so out-of-date. The updated table is now in agreement with both the NCDC and weather.com's (O'Hare ) averages.InNuce 18:31, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
