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SXUS73 KLOT 210701
RERORD

RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL
101 AM CST FRI DECEMBER 21 2012

...RECORD STREAK WITHOUT MEASURABLE SNOW ENDS IN CHICAGO...

0.2 INCHES OF SNOW WERE RECORDED AT CHICAGO-OHARE...ENDING A STREAK
OF 290 CONSECUTIVE DAYS WITHOUT MEASURABLE SNOW. THIS ESTABLISHES
THE NEW RECORD FOR CHICAGO. THE PREVIOUS RECORD WAS 280 DAYS...SET
IN 1994.

IN ADDITION...THURSDAY SNOWFALL ESTABLISHED A NEW RECORD FOR THE
LATEST FIRST MEASURABLE SNOWFALL EVER FOR THE CHICAGO. THE PREVIOUS
RECORD WAS DECEMBER 16TH 1965.

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