Wunderground.com - 1/29/13, Angela Fritz
All-time January high records set this month.
According to NOAA's National Climatic Data Center, there have now been seven major airports in the U.S. that have set all-time warmest temperature records for the month of January (Topeka, KS, Columbia, MO, San Jose, CA, Fayetteville, NC, Bluefield, WV, Bradford, PA, and Evanston, WY); two have set all-time lows (Aspen, CO and Alturas, CA.)
On the snow front, Chicago had its first official 1" snow of the season back on January 25th, the latest date that's ever occurred in the period of official weather records. The previous record-latest 1" snow in Chicago was on January 17, 1899. Weather trivia: Al Capone, who would later become a notorious figure in Chicago history, was born on January 17th, 1899. He died on January 25th, (1947).
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