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CHICAGO — Sunday’s blizzard produced one of the biggest single storm snow tallies in the 130 year term of official observational snow records in Chicago. 2015 The Super Bowl Blizzard. 6 Jan. 31-Feb. 2, 2015: The Superbowl Blizzard. Exactly four years after Snowmageddon shook the city, another record-breaking blizzard swept across the region. What was expected to be an easy weekend of eating nachos and watching the Patriots and Seahawks battle at Super Bowl XLIX fumbled into one of the city’s top winter storms in history. Chicago, IL. Weather Forecast Office. Historic Winter Storm of January 31-February 2, 2015. Weather.gov > Chicago, IL > Historic Winter Storm of January 31-February 2 Over a three-day period from January 31 – February 2, 2015, the Chicago area was hit with more snow than it had seen all season. A whopping 19.3 inches accumulated over Super Bowl weekend, making it the fifth-largest snowstorm in Chicago’s history. Blizzard of 1967. This unexpected storm dumped twenty-three inches of snow on Chicago, from January 26 to January 27, with 53-mile-per-hour winds whipping up six-foot drifts. Thousands of people were stranded in stores and offices. According to The Chicago Tribune, 650 schoolchildren slept in libraries and gymnasiums because buses were stranded Prior to that was the “Groundhog Blizzard” that buried the city with 21.2 inches of snow on the exact same dates as the Super Bowl storm – January 31-February 2, 2011. CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s weekend blizzard was one for the record books. The National Weather Service says that the 19.3 inches of snow was the fifth highest snowfall total since records started being kept in the late 1800s. The Super Bowl Sunday storm’s accumulation beat the previous fifth-largest blizzard of March 1930 by a tenth of an inch. CHICAGO – This weekend marks the 40th anniversary of the Chicago Blizzard of 1979, one of the region’s biggest snowstorms ever. (The Super Bowl Blizzard): 19.3 inches. 4. Jan 12-14, 1979 Sunday was one for the record books—19.3 inches of snow fell at O'Hare, good enough for the fifth-largest snowstorm in the city's history and falling exactly four years after the Blizzard of Time-lapse of the Super bowl weekend blizzard in Chicago. 20 hours of snow in 4 minutes. First attempt at a time-lapse video. Shot on the GoPro Hero 3+. Photo: Courtesy of aliveOne. Chicagoans who visit aliveOne on Super Bowl Sunday in Chicago will enjoy a winning lineup of deals. aliveOne will be showing the big game on all TVs and guests can kick off game day with half-price happy hour from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Additional specials will include $4 Kona Big Wave and FREE pool all evening. CHICAGO —As Chicago prepares for the heaviest snowfall to hit the city since the 2015 Super Bowl Blizzard, here’s a look back at the previous record-setting snow levels in Chicago: Here are The Super Bowl Blizzard, January 1975 By Alexandra Silver Wednesday, Feb. 02, 2011 The weather in the U.S. was strange and dangerous during the second week of January 1975, days before football's biggest event. Last night's Super Bowl Blizzard. We had to wait for the L (train for those non-Chicago ppl) for about 45 min in this! This was Chicago's 5th largest snows The Great Storm of 1975 (also known as the Super Bowl Blizzard, Minnesota's Storm of the Century, or the Tornado Outbreak of January, 1975) was an intense winter storm system that impacted a large portion of the Central and Southeast United States from January 9–12, 1975. The most recent outdoor Super Bowl to have jacket-worthy temperatures was Feb. 3, 2014, in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The high for the day reached 55 and the kickoff temperature was 49 This year marks the 47th anniversary of one of the largest January tornado outbreaks in U.S. history. Also known as the Super Bowl Blizzard, or the Tornado Outbreak of 1975, the Great Storm of 1975 was a disastrous weather system that wrecked the Central and Southeast U.S. from January 9th to January 12th in 1975. Video of Kimock7 trecking to Mickey Finns in Libertyville, Illinois to watch the Super Bowl during the 5th largest blizzard in Chicago history. 2015 I went out early morning/late night, to capture the beauty of the snow and the wind and blizzard conditions before it would be all removed and trampled on by Chicagoans got an unwelcome reason to get some exercise before and after the Super Bowl on Sunday: an intense blizzard with cheek-chapping winds that forced us to shovel 19 inches of snow from our
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