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UPDATED: Snowfall Totals for McHenry County, Chicago Area
How much snow fell in your neck of the woods?
As much as 18 inches reportedly fell in nearby Gurnee during Chicago's most-recent snowstorm, the most recorded throughout the suburbs, according to the National Weather Service.
The snowstorm that started New Year's Eve and continued through today is being hailed as the largest to hit the area since the the Ground Hog Day blizzard of 2011, according to the Chicago Weather Center blog.
Snow could continue to fall this afternoon in some suburbs with a lake effect snow warning in effect for Lake, Cook, DuPage and Will counties.
A wind chill advisory will take effect for much of the area from 9 p.m. Thursday through 10 a.m. Friday with temperatures between -8 to -18 expected and wind chill values between -15 and -25 degrees.
The National Weather Service reported two-day snowfall totals as of 9:25 a.m. Thursday with Gurnee topping its chart with 18 inches of snow.
Here is a look at what other communities recorded for snowfall:
Locally:
- Cary: 11.8 inches
- Woodstock: 8 inches
- Harvard: 9.0
- Rockford: 8.0
- Marengo: 6.0
- Gurnee: 18.0
- Highwood: 15.1
- Riverwoods: 13.8
- Mundelein: 13.7
- Buffalo Grove: 13.7
- Inverness: 13.5
- Beach Park: 12.9
- Elk Grove Village: 12.8
- Harwood Heights: 12.8
- Schaumburg: 12.7
- Arlington Hts: 12.3
- Lake Villa: 11.9
- Waukegan: 11.8
- Park Ridge: 11.8
- Elmhurst: 11.0
- Lincolonwood: 10.8
- Genoa: 10.4
- Barrington: 10.3
- Hoffman Estates: 9.4
- Winfield: 9.1
- Elgin: 9.1
- St. Charles: 9.0
- Oak Park: 9.0
- Bull Valley: 8.8
- Carol Stream: 8.6
- Downers Grove: 8.0
- Geneva: 7.5
- La Grange Park: 7.4
- North Aurora: 7.2
- Oak Brook: 6.9
- Lisle: 6.7
- Batavia: 6.7
- Bartlett: 6.5
- Aurora: 6.5
- Plainfield: 6.3
- O'Hare: 5.8
- Yorkville: 4.5
- Schaumburg: 14.5 inches
- Gurnee: 16 inches
- Arlington Heights: 16 inches
- Evanston: 10 inches
- Cary: 11.8 inches
- Mundelein: 13.7 inches
- Wheaton: 7 inches
- Streamwood: 11.9 inches
- Winfield: 9.1 inches
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