Chicago Weather In March

The highest recorded temperature in March for Chicago Illinois for the past 47 years was 22 degrees Celsius, on March 25, 1982, and the standard high is 8. In the last 47 years the lowest measured March temperature in Chicago was -32 most recently measured on March 18, 1983, while the standard low daily temperature for the month is -2.

US National Weather Service historical Chicago March Weather data records that on March 23, 1983, the high temperature did not exceed -24 degrees Celsius, the lowest high measured in Chicago in the past 47 years. NWS data also shows that on March 1, 1982, the lowest measured temperature on that day did not drop below 14 degrees, the highest low temperature measured in Chicago in the last 47 years.

National Weather Service records indicate that the high temperature in Chicago on March First averages 4 degrees and the high on the last day of the month averages 1 degrees. The low temperature in Chicago in March on the first day of the month averages -4 degrees and the low temperature on the last day of the month averages -8 degrees.

Chicago typically receives an average of 6.73 centimeters of precipitation during the month. March Chicago Weather records show that on March 25, 1982 Chicago received 11.35 centimeters of rain, the most rain measured in a single day in March. Chicago averages 17.018 centimeters of snow in March.On March 31, 1978 Chicago received 25.65 centimeters of precipitation, the highest snowfall recorded in a single day in March.