3800 winter is IL

[Dayride98]

So what is winter like in IL. Highs, lows, temps, etc.

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[GTPHales-Wife]

All Depends. Some winters can be warmish like in the 30's or high 40's and not a lot of snow of course. Or, it can be cold as hell and alot of snow....LOL!

 

[dsk727]

yup, it depends.. some winters we get craploads of snow and others it is just really really cold! I haven't heard what kind of a winter we are supossed to have this year!

 

[imported_Ron Vogel]

 

[staceyyearsich]

Yea it gets cold I'm pretty use to it I kinda like it ... but when we get snow we get snow.!!!

 

[imported_PaceCarBoozer]

The past couple winters have been pretty mild compared to the ol' -40 degree temp (w/ wind chill)

 

[imported_Ron Vogel]

The coldest I ever remember was a -81f windchill in the early '80s...it was funny because my Dad's car overheated and we were stranded on 53 south north of Thorndale. I had my gloves on my feet to keep them warm. We were stuck out there for 2 hours before a State trooper rolled by and gave us a ride to Denny's off of Lake street to sit with all the other people that had car problems. Car was up and running the same day, he blew a lower radiator hose.

We don't often get cold like that, but it comes in snaps that can last a week or two. The last long run of cold weather was like 92 or 93, when we had 2 weeks of -25F weather. My ex-wife's car was our daily, and it wouldn't start...so I bought a small bag of charcoal and put it in a shallow pan. Once it was finally smoldering I put it under the car for about an hour, and it finally started.

My 428 Pontiac in the Cutlass never had a problem starting, but it was a stripped down race car and had no heater, and holes in the floor...it was a cold ride! I had a Holley 750 double pumper with a milled choke horn, and that thing bliped right over even at -20+F

 

[Mike K]

I hate this city because of winter... I'm moving down south some day. St Louis would even be acceptable.

 

[iliveonnitro]

St. Louis is the shittiest city I have ever been to. I hate the cold, but I would never live in St. Louis!

boring, dirty, trashy...their "nice" part is worse than our nice part of chicago, and their bad part is worse.


As for winter in Chicago: lately it's been warm, but it will go in cycles. Last winter was 30s and 40s with little snow. But, when it snows, it snows hard: couple feet of powder on top of a few inches of sleet.

 

[sweetness]

The people who know about this stuff are saying that this winter will probably be a nasty one.


As for me, St Louis is not far enough south. North Carolina is lookin REAL good to me lately.


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