Chicago's coldest winter in 8 years will be getting even colder

The Chicago Tribune reports:

Winter 2008-09—the coldest in 8 years—is to turn brutally cold the remainder of the workweek once snow exits Wednesday. Temperatures drop below zero Wednesday night and may remain there through Friday morning, producing what could be a 39 consecutive-hour stretch of subzero temperatures over many parts of the area (this sentence as published has been corrected). Only in the Loop and near Lake Michigan may the mercury struggle to zero (or just above) for a brief period Thursday—though that's not guaranteed.

A full calendar day hasn't failed to officially record an above zero temperature in Chicago since Feb. 3, 1996, when the high was 5 degrees below zero and the low was minus 19.

No word yet from Al Gore on this one.