If you thought that this was all the hype blizzard in Chicago, think again."No panic here," WGN meteorologist Tom Skilling said on WGN 720 Tuesday morning. "We're trying to tell you what happened."
It appears that Skilling was right. As expected, met with heavy snow and strong winds, the area around 3 clock Tuesday. A blizzard warning remains in effect through Wednesday afternoon, and the storm is expected to increase from 12 to 20 inches of snow in the Chicago area.
The threat of strong winds were also officials in Chicago to consider measures that they have not met for years - starting with the closure of the occupied city and iconic Lake Shore Drive because of the prospect of a 25 - feet by 60 mph winds caused a wave washing Ask the proximity of Lake Michigan.
Everyone should be a storm that will remain for long a staple in the memory, "said Jose Santiago, executive director of the municipal office of emergency management.
If the city gets 20 inches of snow, snow storm, it would be the third largest city, as the 21.6 inches in 1999 and the mother of all snowstorms are overshadowed Chicago, 23 inches snow that fell 1967th
Forty-three winter storms produced 10 inches or more in Chicago since records began in 1886.
