From the article: Chicago, IL Weather Forecast & Essentials
Too hot? Too dreary? Too freezing? Too smeary?
This is the official Chicago Weather Complaint Center. Launched in June 2009 when summer refused to arrive on cue after a long, dreary winter, the Chicago Weather Complaint Center serves as the official depository of weather related gripes.
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This is the official Chicago Weather Complaint Center. Launched in June 2009 when summer refused to arrive on cue after a long, dreary winter, the Chicago Weather Complaint Center serves as the official depository of weather related gripes.
Our response? In addition to the healing power of commiseration inherently provided by this experience, you can review our courtesy complaint response letter, which proves we really, really care.
cold june in chicago...of course
- It's June 11 and it was 58 in my yard...close to the lake, this suck and it seems like only a few weeks till the snow boots come back out, or did I even put them away yet? 58 degrees in June...sucks
- —Guest cold and pissy
Wrong Flipping Place
- When I first moved here a nurse said, "It takes until the middle of June for winter to really pass." I thought that was an exaggeration. It is true. If you have any inclination to comfortable and/or consistent weather, you are living in the wrong flipping place. End of discussion. If I could sell and move, I'd be gone tomorrow morning....
- —Guest J
TWICE
- I don’t know what Jake’s talking about. TWICE in the last week or so, the temperature’s dropped 25deg in the space of a couple of hours.
- —Guest Ed
Sometimes I rock. . .
- Sometimes I rock and cry softly, other times I shiver on the couch. Ever since my landlord turned off the heat as of May 1st, I spend much of my time baking to stay warm, or sitting listlessly on the couch, comparing with my roommate who’s lips have turned the bluest, who’s lost the most feeling in her toes. There have been days where I attempted to go to festivals to celebrate summer, but I usually went home due to an irrational fear of snow. I keep forgetting my birthday is this week, because it can’t possibly be June. My roommate tore her coat down off the rack and stomped on it a month ago, declaring winter’s loss and celebrating the beginning of summer. We must have made some mistake. Did summer forget to set her alarm?
- —Guest M.
Consistent
- I’m actually surprised that Chicago has been having CONSISTENT weather, since the city temperature can sometimes range from 80°F down to 30°F in the course of a few hours. Not only has the temperature been the same crisp 60°, but it’s also been raining the cats and dogs that should have been pouring down in April, around the time when snow was still falling on the city skyline. For the past few days, I’ve been asking those around me, “Is it June?” with not much of an answer to give me. If the weather were its old schizophrenic self, we could at least have one or two or three days of really warm weather mixed in with the cool. Unfortunately, even as look outside my window on what should be a gorgeous Sunday, no such summer exists as of yet. INSERT LARGE SIGH.
- —Guest Jake