Cold Couple of Days in Downers Grove (and the rest of Northern Illinois)
As of this morning, it has gotten down to -22 degrees fahrenheit with wind chills down to -49 degrees fahrenheit. You can see in the image above that it appears that tomorrow early am is going to be a couple of degrees colder. But, not sure it will break the record of -27 degrees - which happened during my lifetime in January of 1985 . I don't have any memory of the cold of 1985, but I *do* have vivid memories of the Polar Vortex of 2014 that sat over Elmhurst (and all of Northern Illinois) for two days. It was cold those days, but not so cold that they shut down the mail. In fact, Nat spotted our mail carrier out delivering mail and invited him in to warm up. We had another smaller Polar Vortex in 2015 (I think it was classified as such??) and I posted about how we ended up with just a little bit of cabin fever and went outside to make a quick snow angel for like 4 minutes here on the blog . So...how cold is it today? The United States ...