Thursday's Light Snow Event and Unique Snow Band

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Thursday, November 15 saw early morning snow from a major weather system to our south spread northwest over northwest Indiana and northern Illinois. The solid snow shield brought 2" to 4" of accumulation in parts of east central Illinois into northwest Indiana by mid-morning. Then a single band of snow continued to move northwest across the Chicago metro area, pivoting, and then weakened as it moved back southeast (though did briefly re-intensify). This band produced mainly 1-2", although there was isolated 2" in Lake County, IL.

Radar Loop from Nov 15,12 a.m. - 6 p.m. Note the colors represent estimated precipitation type. Almost all of this was observed to have been snow.

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Fast Facts

The official snowfall for Chicago was 1.1" observed at Chicago O'Hare International Airport.

Other snowfall amounts include 3.5" in Chesterton, in Porter County, IN, 3.0" in Cullom in Livingston County, IL, and 2.7" from an observer in Lindenhurst, in Lake County, IL.

Snow/Ice Totals

Observed snowfall map from 11/15/18. Also visit the Storm Reports map.

Text Listing of Snowfall Reports from Volunteer Observers

Storm Reports

Map of Snowfall Local Storm Reports

    
                        

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Preliminary Local Storm Report

National Weather Service Chicago IL

426 AM CDT Tue Mar 17 2026



..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...

..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....

            ..REMARKS..



0948 AM     Snow             1 E DeKalb              41.94N 88.73W

03/16/2026  M4.8 Inch        De Kalb            IL   Trained Spotter







0113 PM     Snow             4 W Huntley             42.19N 88.49W

03/16/2026  M5.0 Inch        McHenry            IL   Public









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