(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- This winter is on track to be one of the least snowy winters in more than a decade.
While snowfall season is not over, the National Weather Service has recorded 19.7 inches so far this season. That would put the winter of 2022-2023 on the same pace as the spring-like winter of 2011-2012.
Senior Meteorologist Gino Izzi with the National Weather Service office in Romeoville says there was a wide range of snowfall totals across the Chicago area.
He said some southwest suburbs got less than 10 inches of show, while the far north and northwest suburbs got something close to a normal snowfall of 34 inches.
"The Chicago area lies on a very tight gradient of normal snow to almost incredibly little snow as far as the winter season goes," Izzi said.
While the winter season has been light on snow, 2023 has been rainy.
"Since January 1st, we've had 9.04 inches of rain, which is about 3 inches above normal for that time period," Izzi said.
The rainy winter does not point to a rainy spring and summer.
"I don't think there's much you can say that a wet winter necessarily means you'll have a wet spring or a wet summer," Izzi added.
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