Chicago's first snowfall of the season broke a 52-year-old record on Sunday, as much of the area was blanketed with several inches of snow.
O'Hare Airport saw 6.4 inches of snow by Sunday evening, according to the National Weather Service, shattering the previous daily snowfall record for Dec. 4, which was 4.6 inches set in 1964. [[404644726, C]]
Snow totals for the area were as follows:
Cook County
O'Hare Airport: 6.4 inches
Midway Airport: 5.5 inches
Alsip: 6.4 inches
Local
Palatine: 5.4 inches
Oak Lawn: 6.0 inches
Homewood: 6.1 inches
Schaumburg: 7.5 inches
Lake County
Buffalo Grove: 6.9 inches
Riverwoods: 6.3 inches
Kane County
North Aurora: 7 inches
Batavia: 7.2 inches
Geneva: 6.5 inches
LaSalle County
Somonauk: 7.2 inches
DuPage County
Lisle: 6.7 inches
Downers Grove: 6.9 inches
DeKalb County
DeKalb: 8.5 inches
Kendall County
Plano: 7.9 inches
Oswego: 6.8 inches
McHenry County
Woodstock: 6.3 inches
Bull Valley: 7.0 inches
Will County
Romeoville: 8.1 inches
Joliet: 7.2 inches
Mokena: 5.9 inches
Frankfort: 6.3 inches
New Lenox: 6.5 inches
Crest Hill: 8.0 inches
Winnebago County
Rockford: 6.9 inches
Lee County
Amboy: 6.0 inches
Lake County, Ind.
Munster: 4.2 inches
Hobart: 4.8 inches
Dyer: 4.8 inches
Porter County, Ind.
Boone Grove: 3.4 inches
Valaparaiso: 3.5 inches
Portage: 3.0 inches
Much of the region was under a Winter Weather Advisory from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., with snow beginning to accumulate Sunday morning and moving from west to east as it continued to fall through the evening. [[402534505, C]]
Monday will be dry throughout the area with high temperatures returning to the 40s at the start of the work week.
Our next chance for snow could be as early as Tuesday morning, with a possibility of flurries mixed with showers returning to the Chicago area.
Tuesday evening looks to be dry, with another storm system possibly bringing light snow to Chicago again on Wednesday night or Thursday. Temperatures will also likely drop into the teens mid-week as arctic air moves in.
