The university's student wellness center also will remain open for virtual care, but any non-urgent in-person appointments might be rescheduled. Monday and will reopen at noon Tuesday.Īll university libraries will be closed, but University of Chicago Medicine hospitals and clinics will continue to operate. COVID-19 testing sites also closed at 2:30 p.m. The University of Chicago is canceling all in-person classes and non-essential activities between 2:30 p.m. The intensity will increase after sunset, with 1 to 2 inches per hour through midnight and steady accumulation in the overnight hours.Īs of 4:50 p.m., airlines have canceled 213 flights at O'Hare International Airport, and another 147 flights at Midway International Airport. Localized intense bands of snow were also seen in Northwest Indiana, and were combining with the storm system snow that was blowing in late in the afternoon. There were also tire tracks in the middle of the road, which in some cases made a necessary path for other drivers to get down the streets at all.ĬBS 2 Meteorologist Mary Kay Kleist reported all systems are coming together – with intense lake-effect snow hitting Cook County the strongest.Īs of 5 p.m., steady snow was pounding the Near West Side near the Eisenhower Expressway between Damen and Ashland avenues, and also near Midway International Airport extending south to Burbank and Worth and north to the city's West Side. In Uptown at 5 p.m., it was very slow going and cars were virtually buried – with small snow embankments next to the tires in some of the parked carts. In the meantime, it will be tough and treacherous to get around on side streets. First, the snow will have to stop, and then Department of Streets and Sanitation snow plows will have to keep arterial streets and Lake Shore Drive clear before getting to side streets as per protocol. The snowstorm has left many side streets in Chicago nearly impassable, and it could be a while before those streets are cleared. Monday, 234 flights had been canceled at O'Hare International Airport and average delays were less than 15 minutes.Īt Midway Airport, 155 flights have been canceled and average delays are less than 15 minutes. While this is not a blizzard, the higher range of those totals is close to that of past major blizzards in Chicago.Īs of 8:30 p.m. It appeared Monday night like the prime place for accumulation will be 2 to 3 miles on either side of a northeast-southwest line that stretched from Winnetka down through Evanston and then to Midway International Airport.Īfter the lake-effect snow tapers off by Tuesday afternoon, some locations along this corridor could reach the 15- to 20-inch mark for snow totals. Strong northeast winds gusting 30-35 mph will continue to create blowing and drifting snow with near zero visibility at times. Lake-enhanced snow bands continued to keep snow rates of 1 to 2 inches per hour. The snowstorm was almost at its peak intensity at 8:45 p.m., with the heaviest snow accumulation expected through 2 a.m., CBS 2 Meteorologist Mary Kay Kleist reported.
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