If you are looking for fresh snow by Christmas morning or are curious about potential travel disruptions, the best chances for at least 1" of new snowfall early this week exist across the mountainous West, Great Lakes, and Northeast. Otherwise, temperatures this last full week of December will average above normal for much of the lower 48 states. Read More >
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The first widespread accumulating snow event of several inches for the winter season occurred on New Year's Day of 2022. This page houses snowfall totals from the event, as well as some insight on why snowfall totals in some places were in the lower end of the forecast range or even below it. |
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Snow Totals
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| Regional snowfall map (note color scale is slightly different than map at top of page). |
Public Information Statement National Weather Service Chicago IL 122 PM CST Sun Jan 2 2022 ...1/1/2022 - 1/2/2022 SNOWFALL REPORTS... Location Amount Time/Date Provider ...Illinois... ...Boone County... Timberlane 1 SW 3.9 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Capron 3.9 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS ...Cook County... Hoffman Estates 6.5 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Hoffman Estates 5 W 6.5 in 0815 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Palatine 1 NE 5.8 in 1100 AM 01/02 NWS Employee Evanston 1 E 5.5 in 0800 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Oak Park 1 NNE 5.0 in 0645 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Mount Prospect 4.8 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS 1 SW Lincoln Square - Chicag 4.8 in 0815 AM 01/02 Public Schaumburg 2 W 4.7 in 0500 AM 01/02 NWS Employee Chicago - West Ridge 4.5 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Palatine 1.2 NW 4.5 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Homewood 4.4 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Chicago - West Ridge 4.3 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS 3 SW Midway Airport 4.2 in 0545 AM 01/02 Official NWS Obs Chicago OHare Airport 4.1 in 0545 AM 01/02 Official NWS Obs Oak Forest 1 NNW 4.0 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Forest Park 1 ENE 3.8 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Lansing 3.8 in 0700 AM 01/02 COOP Schaumburg 1.4 SE 3.7 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Roselle 1 NNW 3.5 in 0600 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Harwood Heights 3.5 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Elk Grove Village 2 WSW 3.4 in 0655 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Schaumburg 2 E 3.2 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Countryside 1 ENE 3.0 in 0500 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Palatine 1 NNE 3.0 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS La Grange 3.0 in 0800 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Franklin Park 0.5 SSE 3.0 in 0800 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Winnetka 1 SE 3.0 in 0800 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Oak Lawn 2.8 in 0815 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Chicago - Hyde Park 2.5 in 0600 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Palos Park 2 WSW 2.5 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Bridgeview 1 WNW 2.5 in 0730 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Park Forest 1 WNW 2.5 in 0730 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Park Forest 2.0 in 0500 AM 01/02 COOP Chicago Ridge 2.0 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Oak Lawn 2 WNW 2.0 in 0800 AM 01/02 COCORAHS 1 N Douglas - Chicago 1.8 in 0805 AM 01/02 NWS Employee ...De Kalb County... DeKalb 4.8 in 0700 AM 01/02 COOP Genoa 3.1 in 0600 AM 01/02 COOP Somonauk 3.0 in 0900 PM 01/01 Trained Spotter Cortland 2.8 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS ...DuPage County... Wheaton 4.2 in 1000 AM 01/02 Trained Spotter Glen Ellyn 1 W 4.0 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Darien 2 SE 3.6 in 0715 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Elmhurst 1 SE 3.5 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS West Chicago 4 NNE 3.5 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Villa Park 3.5 in 0730 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Downers Grove 3.5 in 0845 AM 01/02 Public Clarendon Hills 3.3 in 0800 AM 01/02 UCOOP Winfield 0.8 ENE 3.1 in 0800 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Naperville 3 SE 3.0 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Bolingbrook 3 NE 3.0 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS West Chicago 4 SE 3.0 in 0715 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Elmhurst 2 SE 2.9 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS 3 SSE Naperville 2.6 in 0725 PM 01/01 NWS Employee Aurora 4 ESE 2.0 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS ...Grundy County... Minooka 2.7 in 0800 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Carbon Hill 3 N 2.6 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Carbon Hill 3 NW 2.5 in 0800 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Morris 2 W 2.1 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Morris 1 NW 2.0 in 0800 AM 01/02 COOP ...Iroquois County... Ashkum 6 E 1.0 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Watseka 1.0 in 0745 AM 01/02 Broadcast Media Crescent City 2 N 0.6 in 0600 AM 01/02 COCORAHS ...Kane County... Elgin 1 SSW 5.2 in 0800 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Elburn 5.0 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Elgin 3 W 4.0 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS 2 W Sugar Grove 4.0 in 0815 AM 01/02 Public North Aurora 1 ENE 3.7 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Campton Hills 3 NNE 3.3 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS St. Charles 1 ENE 3.2 in 0800 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Sugar Grove 1 NNW 3.0 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Batavia 3.0 in 0600 AM 01/02 UCOOP Batavia 1 NW 2.8 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Geneva 2 WNW 2.8 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Batavia 3.4 WSW 2.7 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Geneva 1 SSW 2.7 in 0730 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Aurora 3 WSW 2.5 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS ...Kankakee County... Kankakee 1.4 WSW 2.5 in 0600 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Bourbonnais 2.3 in 0700 AM 01/02 COOP 2 ESE Herscher 2.1 in 0943 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Herscher 3 E 1.3 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS St. Anne 1.0 in 0700 AM 01/02 COOP ...Kendall County... Oswego 1 SSE 3.0 in 0730 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Boulder Hill 1 NNE 2.0 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS ...La Salle County... Peru 1 NNE 4.0 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Streator 1 WSW 3.4 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Marseilles 3 W 3.0 in 0600 AM 01/02 COOP La Salle 2.5 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Ottawa 1 N 2.4 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Ottawa - Buffalo Rock SP 2.0 in 0740 AM 01/02 COOP Marseilles 2 WSW 2.0 in 0900 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Mendota 1 SE 1.3 in 0700 AM 01/02 COOP ...Lake County... Waukegan 2 N 5.5 in 0800 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Long Lake 5.0 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Bannockburn 4.8 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS 1 SE Highland Park 4.4 in 0900 AM 01/02 Public Highland Park 2.1 WNW 4.3 in 0800 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Riverwoods 1 NE 4.0 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Highwood 4.0 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Fox Lake Hills 3.7 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Forest Lake 1 SSW 3.4 in 0700 AM 01/02 UCOOP Mundelein 4 WSW 3.2 in 0700 AM 01/02 COOP Buffalo Grove 2 N 3.2 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Mundelein 1.6 WNW 2.8 in 0730 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Grandwood Park 1 SE 2.6 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS ...Lee County... Amboy 1 WSW 3.0 in 0701 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Nelson 3 NNW 3.0 in 0800 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Steward 3 S 2.1 in 0700 AM 01/02 COOP ...Livingston County... Chatsworth 3.0 in 0700 AM 01/02 Broadcast Media Emington 2 SSE 2.0 in 0600 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Chatsworth 2.0 in 0700 AM 01/02 COOP Streator 2.0 in 0700 AM 01/02 COOP Dwight 2.0 in 0700 AM 01/02 COOP ...McHenry County... Woodstock 5.4 in 1005 PM 01/01 Public Marengo 4.5 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Cary 4.3 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Harvard 4.4 NNE 4.0 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Bull Valley 2 WNW 3.9 in 0800 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Algonquin 1 NNW 3.8 in 1045 AM 01/02 COCORAHS McHenry 1 ENE 3.6 in 0900 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Trout Valley 3.5 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Crystal Lake 4 NW 3.5 in 0700 AM 01/02 COOP Woodstock 5 NW 3.5 in 0700 AM 01/02 COOP Huntley 2.8 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Crystal Lake 1 WSW 2.4 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS ...Will County... 1 NW Rockdale 3.7 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Peotone 3.6 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Mokena 1 W 3.5 in 0800 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Manhattan 5 ENE 3.5 in 0800 AM 01/02 COOP Mokena 2 WSW 3.0 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Lockport 2 SE 3.0 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Monee 5 SE 3.0 in 0800 AM 01/02 COCORAHS New Lenox 1 SE 3.0 in 0800 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Crete 3 ENE 3.0 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Naperville 4 SE 3.0 in 1019 AM 01/02 COCORAHS NWS Chicago-Romeoville 2.8 in 0545 AM 01/02 Official NWS Obs Crete 3 E 2.8 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Homer Glen 1 NNE 2.7 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS 4 N Plainfield 2.6 in 1045 AM 01/02 NWS Employee Joliet - Brandon Lock & Dam 2.5 in 0600 AM 01/02 COOP New Lenox 1 SSE 2.5 in 0600 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Joliet 2 N 2.3 in 0700 AM 01/02 UCOOP Manhattan 2 SE 1.5 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Lakewood Shores 1 SE 1.4 in 0630 AM 01/02 COCORAHS ...Winnebago County... Rockford Airport 4.8 in 0545 AM 01/02 Official NWS Obs 4 NNW Rockford 4.5 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS New Milford 1 NNE 4.5 in 0800 AM 01/02 COCORAHS 4 ENE Winnebago 4.0 in 0905 PM 01/01 Broadcast Media Rockford 2 ENE 4.0 in 0900 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Rockford 3.3 NE 3.5 in 0730 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Rockton 2.7 in 0935 PM 01/01 Broadcast Media ...Indiana... ...Jasper County... DeMotte 3.0 in 0800 AM 01/02 COCORAHS DeMotte 2.5 in 0600 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Roselawn 3 ENE 2.0 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS De Motte 6 S 1.0 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS ...Lake County... Cedar Lake 2 NNW 4.1 in 0600 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Gary 5 ENE 4.0 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS St. John 3 SSE 3.6 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Hobart 1 ENE 3.3 in 1100 AM 01/02 COCORAHS St. John 3.0 in 0600 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Dyer 3.0 in 0800 AM 01/02 COCORAHS ...Newton County... Morocco 1.0 in 0600 AM 01/02 COOP Mount Ayr 2 NNE 1.0 in 0800 AM 01/02 COCORAHS ...Porter County... Valparaiso 2 NNW 4.2 in 1000 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Chesterton 5 ESE 3.8 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Porter 3.7 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS 2 N Portage 3.3 in 1200 PM 01/02 Trained Spotter Chesterton 2 E 3.2 in 0630 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Valparaiso 1 N 3.1 in 0554 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Ogden Dunes 3.0 in 0515 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Chesterton 4 ESE 3.0 in 0700 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Kouts 2.5 in 0930 PM 01/01 Public Boone Grove 2 WNW 2.4 in 0740 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Valparaiso 4 SW 2.3 in 0600 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Boone Grove 4 NNE 2.0 in 0600 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Wanatah 2.0 in 0700 AM 01/02 COOP Lakes of the Four Seasons 1.2 in 0830 AM 01/02 COCORAHS Observations are collected from a variety of sources with varying equipment and exposures. We thank all volunteer weather observers for their dedication. Not all data listed are considered official.
Insight
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| Digging beyond a map of snowfall totals, there were heavier snow rates at times, blowing snow, and impacts to travel, all of these most persistent in far northern Illinois. They were less so along/south of I-88 where conditions were not necessarily always in-sync. | Bear with us for just one meteorology image, as that's what we do! There are many spectrums of snowfall dependent on flake size and intensity, and both of those were more variable over a large part of our area to get snow totals on the higher end of the forecast range. |
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| Actually meteorology is not only what us meteorologists do -- communication too! We know that forecast specific amounts can be difficult and not always telling, hence why we message ranges and often only closer to an event. We strive to communicate expected impacts of an event. | While snow totals tend to be focused on by many with winter events, there is much that influences how it will impact society. Those listed on the 5th/final image are key to keep in mind ahead of and during events. |
We are always looking to improve our forecasts and communication of them to you!
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