Bleed Cubbie Blue · Dec 23, 2018
Remembering the Cubs’ 2018 winter baseball: December in April
Javy Baez and Jose Quintana play with snowballs at Wrigley Field on April 9, 2018This December has been one of the warmer ones in recent Chicago history. High temperatures have been mainly in the 40s and there has been only three-tenths of an inch of snow recorded at O’Hare Airport, the official Chicago reporting station.
April ranked as the fourth-coldest on record in Chicago and second in Rockford. For both cities, it was the most bitter April since 1907.
A frigid air mass settled over much of the Midwest and Northeast, making for a bone-chilling start to the Major League Baseball season.