Skilling: We're On A Record Hot Streak
By Chuck Sudo in News on Jun 19, 2012 3:55PM
It's a scorcher out there and what is understood doesn't need to be discussed. What does need to be discussed is this run of weather and the record books. When we reach the 90 degree threshold today it will mark the 12th time this year the official temperature has reached or passed that number.
According to Tom Skilling the last time the Chicago area has seen this many days at or above 90 degrees was 1977. (I'm pretty certain my mother was slathering me with Noxzema to treat a nasty sunburn I picked up at Fullerton Avenue beach.) Skilling is more concerned about the lack of rain. The warm air that is dominating weather patterns across the Midwest is also preventing the formation of much-needed rain clouds; Sunday night's showers were akin to pissing on a hot skillet.
That combination has Skilling wondering if we can approach some of the records from 1988, one of the hottest summers on record around these parts.