First Documented Radar Hook Echo
The Illinois State Water Survey is home to the first ever documented radar hook associated with an actual tornado. Water Survey staff captured the historic event on film on April ...
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Warm Start to April
April is off to a warm start with statewide temperatures 10.0 degrees above normal for the first 18 days of April. The statewide average precipitation is 1.66 inches, 76 percent ...
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March Was Warmer and Drier than Normal
Champaign, Ill. – Based on preliminary data in Illinois, the statewide average temperature for March was 43.6 degrees, 2.5 degrees above normal. This ends a three-month streak of colder than ...
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Cold February Wraps Up a Cold Winter
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Based on preliminary data in Illinois, the statewide average temperature for February 2010 was 25.1 degrees, 5.1 degrees below normal. Snowfall for February was above normal. Amounts ...
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January – Cold Start to 2010
Based on preliminary data, the average statewide temperature for January was 21.1 degrees, 3.7 degree below normal. The statewide average precipitation for January was 1.50 inches, 0.43 inches and 22 ...
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