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City Walloped By Woolly Weather

By Marcus Gilmer in Miscellaneous on Jun 20, 2009 4:15PM

Yesterday's storms were impressive, both visually and statistically. Besides the impressive display for the eyes, the storms smashed the city's single-day rain record for June 19 with 3.97 inches of rain falling at O'Hare, also good enough for the third wettest June day ever and the city's twelfth wettest day ever overall. Of course, that was just at O'Hare. As WGN Weather reports, well over 4.5 inches of rain fell on the Northwest Side.

Flickr user ehfisher, who contributed one of the above pictures, has also shared this amazing video of some of yesterday's storms rolling through.