Results tagged “weatherchannel”

Here's one for you history buffs: today marks the 137th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire. The fire burned from Sunday October 8 to early Tuesday October 10, 1871, killing 300 and destroying over 17,000 buildings. Of course, the city rose from the ashes and has since become the gleaming beacon of the Midwest (sorry, St. Louis).

While the Tribune calls this a "shocking storm," we heard it was going to be hot and rainy all week. However, our friends at the Weather Channel have just reported that over at the Chicago Historical Society (1601 N. Clark), the windows were blown out from the wind and there are some injuries. We send a good thought to everyone there. They also report that there were wind speeds of 78 m.p.h. recorded at Wrigley...

We have several areas of faux expertise. Ones we've gained from many years of watching TV shows on the subjects, reading novels on the subjects, reading news stories on the subjects and just being generally interested in the subjects. These subjects are law, medicine and weather. Needless to say, we've spent many hours with the Weather Channel on in the background. We've even had a favorite Weather Channel meteorologist (Dave Schwartz, anyone?) and we have...

Chicagoist’s grandfather always made fun of our grandmother’s obsession with The Weather Channel because he said you could predict the weather with a simple tool he called the Weather Ball. To make a Weather Ball, you crumple up a piece of newspaper and place it on your windowsill before you go to bed. In the morning, bring your Weather Ball inside. If it is wet, it’s raining outside. If it is frozen, it’s cold and/or...

A couple of years ago, Alderman Gene Schulter of the 47th ward (and Chairman of the License Committee) was made aware of some scummy kennel operators in his area and was disgusted by what he found going on at their operations (e.g., dogs without food and water). He headed up a task force of sorts to ensure that kennels, grooming and other dog day care facilities would be held to some sort of standard in...

All experiments need a constant, and since the weather-forecasting game in Chicago is all over the map, we thought we’d turn to our old friend The Weather Channel to provide us with some less-than-extreme results. But since Chicagoist doesn’t have cable and isn’t over the age of 60, we don’t watch The Weather Channel. So the 24-hour weather station’s Web site was our source for weather this past week. We tend to use this as a primary source for weather anyway, since it is so readily available, and we wanted to know how it stacked up against the locally based meteorologists.

If you’re dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones we used to know, chances are you won’t be finding it in Illinois this year. Although The Weather Channel is noting possible flurries, with temperatures above freezing for the entire week, anything sticking around is highly doubtful. With the exception of the snowfall we saw on the first of the month, the 6.5’’ snow tally at O’Hare is half of the 12’’ that had...