The coldest day ever! Well -- the coldest day ever in summer! Well -- the coldest day ever in summer in the last thirty years!
I was going to go to the beach today, but I had already packed away the accoutrements I would have needed (hat, gloves, scarves) -- plus, I had to work -- but since the Chicago beach has wireless now, I guess I could have overcome the technical issue if I could also have addressed the frigidity issue.
Of course, everything is relative -- so the cold front might make overnight lows tonight in the low 40's (which, for July, is a record), but we're still not talking about shocking the ecosystem too drastically (as a warming spell immediately follows these three days of chill). Look -- it's Chicago. Look again (as in, do a double take?) and you don't have to be the progeny of Tom Skilling to understand this (really, though, we all do feel like he's "meteorological" family) but sometimes the winds comes from the south -- and they're warm -- and sometimes they come from the north -- and they're not so warm.
So pull out the afghans and cuddle up with loved ones on the couch and heat up the hot chocolate (and cover up the damn tomatoes) ... and we can get through this calamity together!
[And, if you can spare the time, do something dramatic, because that way you can start the story you tell your grandkids with ... "No one had ever experienced the chill in the air that July in Chitown like we did, and that was the day that ..." Come on -- you get the point. The situation practically begs you to do something (note to self: check birth rates in Chicago in late April 2014 ... just a hunch ...)]
THE WEATHER BLOG SAYS THERE ARE MORE OSCILLATIONS TO COME:
http://blog.chicagoweathercenter.com/2013/07/27/another-autumn-like-day-before-temperatures-recover/
IT WAS WARMER IN DEC 2012 THAN IT IS IN JULY 2013:
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-12-04/news/ct-met-warm-winter-weather-20121204_1_temperature-o-hare-international-airport-national-weather-service
WHILE WE'RE ON THE SUBJECT OF SUMMER AND COLD:
http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-treat-summer-colds.html
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