{"id":236,"date":"2009-01-14T08:29:51","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T14:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/?p=236"},"modified":"2009-01-14T08:29:51","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T14:29:51","slug":"as-the-snow-flies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/?p=236","title":{"rendered":"As the snow flies&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sort-of like shoveling snow. <em>Sorta<\/em>. However on this cold and grey Chicago morning, I can&#8217;t say I do.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.trb.com\/news\/weather\/weblog\/wgnweather\/2009\/01\/snow_flies_about_as_bitter_win.html\">WGN Weather &#8220;Blog&#8221;<\/a>, we&#8217;ve already received a normal winter&#8221;s full snowfall&#8230; and we typically get 60% of our snow after January 13th. We may be in for another record-setting year of snow.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Though it is not even mid-January, the city has already surpassed the 124 year long-term<br \/>\nseasonal snow average of 36.6 inches with 37.9 inches on the books. Typically 60 percent<br \/>\nof the season&#8217;s snow is yet to fall, so the city could be looking at its second straight<br \/>\n60 inch-plus snow season.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fortunately we are getting a break from the snow&#8230; in order to get some hard cold weather. Wind chills today of down to -40. Actual air temperatures tomorrow will get up to a balmy -18C (-1F) and we&#8217;re expected to have a solid 60-hour streak of subzero temperatures. The last time Chicago had a day which didn&#8217;t officially break into nonzero positive interger degrees Foreignheit was back in 1996.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sort-of like shoveling snow. Sorta. However on this cold and grey Chicago morning, I can&#8217;t say I do. According to the WGN Weather &#8220;Blog&#8221;, we&#8217;ve already received a normal winter&#8221;s full snowfall&#8230; and we typically get 60% of our snow after January 13th. We may be in for another record-setting year of snow. Though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237,"href":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions\/237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}