First Significant Snow of the Winter in Illinois

It looks like winter has finally arrived – we knew it was only a matter of time.

Midwest

Here are the snowfall totals for the past 24 hours across the Midwest. The largest snowfall in the region was Davenport, IA, with 10.2 inches.
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Illinois

Here are the snowfall totals for the past 24 hours in Illinois. The official snowfall for Chicago was 6.4 inches, observed at Chicago O’Hare Airport. Rockford reported 5.3 inches. The largest snowfall in the state was 9.4 inches near Morrison (IL-WD-5). Other large totals include Elburn (IL-KN-96) with 9.0 inches and Dixon (IL-LE-10) with 8.5 inches. These are all CoCoRaHS volunteer observers, trained and using standard equipment to observe snowfall.
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