In late January, Chicago broke a record for lowest maximum daily temperature at minus 10 degrees, busting its earlier record of minus 3 degrees. The city also hit a record daily low at minus 23 degrees. According to climate experts, increasing weather extremes are in keeping with broader predictions of climate change. Daniel Swain, a California climate scientist, said that climate change is making extreme swings between warm weather and cold weather, drought and rain, the new normal. [Read: Both sides of the climate change debate are using extreme weather in their arguments.]

Source: New York Times March 01, 2019 17:48 UTC