The weather forecast calls for anywhere from a dusting to 1 inch of snow early\u00a0Tuesday in the Jacksonville area.<\/p>\n
Near-freezing temperatures overnight were expected to bring about six hours of snow, mixed with rain at times, through Tuesday morning, forecasters said.<\/p>\n
Seeing the white stuff in April is rare, but it happens on occasion.<\/p>\n
On average, the Jacksonville area receives less than 1 inch of snowfall every April, and mainly in the early part of the month. Most April snows are light, but there are exceptions.<\/p>\n
The area was hit with three significant snowfalls between April 1 and April 15, 2018.<\/p>\n
Quincy saw 4 inches of snow on April 17, 1953.<\/p>\n
On April 14, 1980, Springfield received 6.1 inches, while White Hall had 5 inches and\u00a0Virden received 4.<\/p>\n
About 4 inches were dropped on Virginia on April 9, 1982.<\/p>\n
In unusual cases, snows can come even later. Since records began in 1881, Springfield has recorded at least one-tenth of an inch in total snowfall in May on three occasions.<\/p>\n
On May 2, 1929, 3 inches of the white stuff dropped in both\u00a0Carlinville and Alton. Records from the Illinois state climatologist report that an eye-popping 8.2 inches fell that day in Decatur \u2014 one of the heavier single-day snowfalls on record in the Soy City.<\/p>\n
Not surprisingly, spring snow is worse in Chicago, where the latest measurable snowfall on record came on May 11, 1966 \u2014 three days after Mother\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n
Snow has been reported in the Windy City as late as June 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The weather forecast calls for anywhere from a dusting to 1 inch of snow early\u00a0Tuesday in the Jacksonville…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4613,100098,116,118,117,115,4614,278,3285],"class_list":{"0":"post-220812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-breakingnews","9":"tag-ilweather","10":"tag-jacksonville","11":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","12":"tag-jacksonville-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-pubnow","15":"tag-top-stories","16":"tag-weird"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}