Kane County once again led the league in cold-weather misery, scoring the highest snowfall in Saturday’s late-April blizzard.

St. Charles recorded 6.0 inches of wet snow, according to statistics released Sunday (April 28, 2019) by the National Weather Service Chicago. Observations usually are taken at 7 a.m.

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The Kane County 24-hour snow totals varied greatly, as they often do. Here’s the top five:

Kane County Snow Totals

Raceway Woods Forest Preserve. PHOTO BY BRAD WESTMAN.

• St. Charles — 6.0 inches
• Gilberts — 4.9 inches
• Elgin — 4.5 inches
• Elburn — 3.0 inches
• Batavia — 1.6 inches

A longer list is pasted below.

Fast Facts

Snowman “before” and “after” photos courtesy of Kane County Board member Chris Kious.

• The official snowfall for Chicago as of 1 a.m. was 2.5 inches observed at Chicago O’Hare International Airport. This was the latest accumulating snow since 1989 (May 6).
• The official snowfall for Rockford was 3.7 inches, observed at Chicago Rockford International Airport. Facts about this can be found below.

• Other snowfall amounts include 0.4 inches at the NWS Chicago in Romeoville and 1.5 inches observed three miles southwest of Chicago Midway International Airport.
• While this was the latest accumulating snow in Chicago and Rockford in 25 years, parts of the area have had later accumulating snow since, including May 16, 2014.

This Is Not Normal

Here are some of the “normals” for the Chicago O’Hare area. The stats are from 1981 to 2010 unless otherwise noted.

Records for multiple official Chicago sites are from 1886 to the present.

Normal and Record Snowfall

For seasonal and monthly normals and records, please visit the Local Climate Page.

Trace or More of Snow

Measurable (0.1 Inches or More)

One Inch or More

Regional Snow Totals

Northern Illinois                              Snow
  Location (County):                           fall(inches)

  St. Charles 6NW (Kane)........................6.0
  Roscoe 2ESE (Winnebago).......................5.1
  Roscoe 2se (Winnebago)........................5.1
  Wheaton 2NNE (Du Page)........................5.0
  St. Charles (Kane)............................5.0
  Hoffman Estates 2SE (Cook)....................4.9
  Gilberts (Kane)...............................4.9
  Elgin 2W (Kane)...............................4.5
  Lake Zurich (Lake)............................4.5
  Elk Grove Village 2WSW (Cook).................4.3
  Genoa (De Kalb)...............................4.1
  Capron (Boone)................................4.0
  Schaumburg 2E (Cook)..........................4.0
  Roselle 1ESE (Du Page)........................4.0
  Algonquin 1N (McHenry)........................4.0
  Mundelein (Lake)..............................4.0
  Hebron (McHenry)..............................3.8
  Bull Valley 2WNW (McHenry)....................3.7
  Rockford (Winnebago)..........................3.7
  Rockford 1NW (Winnebago)......................3.5
  Woodstock (McHenry)...........................3.5
  Mundelein 2WNW (Lake).........................3.2
  Woodstock 4SW (McHenry).......................3.2
  Elk Grove Village 1ESE (Cook).................3.1
  Elburn (Kane).................................3.0
  Palatine 1E (Cook)............................3.0
  Elburn (Kane).................................3.0
  De Kalb 1SW (De Kalb).........................2.8
  Glen Ellyn 2SSE (Du Page).....................2.8
  Highwood 1S (Lake)............................2.8
  De Kalb (De Kalb).............................2.7
  Fox Lake 2SE (Lake)...........................2.7
  Elgin (Kane)..................................2.6
  Park Ridge (Cook).............................2.6
  Botanic Gardens (Cook)........................2.5
  Elmhurst (Du Page)............................2.5
  Gurnee 2W (Lake)..............................2.5
  Ohare Airport (Cook)..........................2.5
  Oak Park 1NNE (Cook)..........................2.0
  La Grange Park 1SSW (Cook)....................2.0
  Midway Coop (Cook)............................1.7
  Batavia (Kane)................................1.6