At a Glance

Just one year ago, Chicago didn't have much as an inch of snow on the ground in January or February.Numerous cities in the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes picked up snow for over a week straight. Some cities, like Chicago, tied or set record-long streaks.

Chicago tied its streak of consecutive days with measurable snow Sunday, and several other Great Lakes cities either broke or approached record snow streaksas well.

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Sunday marked the ninth and final day in a row with at least 0.1 inch of snowfall at O'Hare International Airport, tying a record-long stretch in Chicago from Jan. 6-14, 2009 and Jan. 29 - Feb. 6, 1902, according to the National Weather Service.

Only one of the days hadheavy snowfall –6.2 inches on Feb. 9 during –but this nine-day stretch produced more snowfall (18.3 inches)than had fallen in the entire season through Groundhog Day (10 inches).

It also left Chicago's O'Hare International Airportwith its greatest snow depth in three years, since dumped over 19 inches of snow just before Groundhog Day 2015.

The latest snow streakstriggered thousands offlight cancellations, including more than 200 of themSunday.

Understandably,snow fatigue had by Sunday morning.

Just one year ago, for the first time on record.

Other Streaks

Rockford, Illinois, also picked up measurable snow over the same nine-day stretch as Chicago, from Jan. 1-7, 1994 and Jan. 24-30, 1994.

Des Moines, Iowa's eight-day snow streak tied for its second longest in records dating to 1884, topped only by a nine-day streak in March 1965.

If it wasn't for a mere trace of snow Feb. 6, set in February and March 2007.

A pair of long measurable snow streaks came to an end in the eastern Great Lakes on Sunday,including in Buffalo (9 straight days)and .

These latest streaks were nowhere near the records of 28 straight days in Buffalo –ending Jan. 22, 1977 –and 18 straight days in Syracuse, ending Jan. 15, 1999.

Jonathan Erdman is a senior meteorologist at weather.com and has been an incurable weather geek since a tornado narrowly missed his childhood home in Wisconsin at age 7. Follow him onand.