July brought sweetcorn…and floods, drought, heat, smoke, and tornadoes
CHAMPAIGN — In one month, Illinoisans experienced severe heat, lingering drought and flash floods, strong storms, and poor air quality. This was no...
CHAMPAIGN — In one month, Illinoisans experienced severe heat, lingering drought and flash floods, strong storms, and poor air quality. This was not your typical July, according to Illinois State Climatologist Trent Ford at the Illinois State Water Survey. Although July is the hottest month of the year in Illinois and typically has the highest frequency of extremely warm weather, the heat in Illinois in late July was unusual, even for our hottest month. Daily high temperatures on July 27 and 28 exceeded 90 degrees across the state and topped 100 degrees in parts of western Illinois.