If you thought this whole Chicago blizzard thing was all hype, think again.
"Nobody is fear-mongering here," WGN meteorologist Tom Skilling said on WGN 720 Tuesday morning." We're trying to tell you what's happening."
It appears that Skilling was right. As predicted, heavy snow and high winds hit the area about 3 p.m. Tuesday. A blizzard warning remains in effect through Wednesday afternoon, and the storm is expected to drop 12 to 20 inches of snow on the Chicagoland area.
The threat of high winds also had Chicago officials contemplating steps they haven't taken in years - starting with closing down the city's busy and iconic Lake Shore Drive because of the prospect of 25-foot waves caused by 60 mph winds washing over it from nearby Lake Michigan.
Everyone "should brace for a storm that will be remembered for a long time," said Jose Santiago, executive director of the city's office of emergency management.
If the city gets 20 inches of snow, it would be the city's third-biggest snowstorm, overshadowed only by the 21.6 inches in 1999 and the mother of all Chicago snowstorms, the 23 inches of snow that fell in 1967.
Forty-three winter storms have produced 10 inches or more in Chicago since record-keeping began in 1886.
"Nobody is fear-mongering here," WGN meteorologist Tom Skilling said on WGN 720 Tuesday morning." We're trying to tell you what's happening."
It appears that Skilling was right. As predicted, heavy snow and high winds hit the area about 3 p.m. Tuesday. A blizzard warning remains in effect through Wednesday afternoon, and the storm is expected to drop 12 to 20 inches of snow on the Chicagoland area.
The threat of high winds also had Chicago officials contemplating steps they haven't taken in years - starting with closing down the city's busy and iconic Lake Shore Drive because of the prospect of 25-foot waves caused by 60 mph winds washing over it from nearby Lake Michigan.
Everyone "should brace for a storm that will be remembered for a long time," said Jose Santiago, executive director of the city's office of emergency management.
If the city gets 20 inches of snow, it would be the city's third-biggest snowstorm, overshadowed only by the 21.6 inches in 1999 and the mother of all Chicago snowstorms, the 23 inches of snow that fell in 1967.
Forty-three winter storms have produced 10 inches or more in Chicago since record-keeping began in 1886.
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