While this summer has been hot and humid, it pales in comparison to the hottest month in Illinois history – July 1936. Here are the records from July of that year at Midway Airport in Chicago. The temperature hit the triple digit mark nine times that month. That’s more times than for the entire 1954 […]
The statewide average temperature for July was 70.3 degrees in Illinois, which ties the record cool July of 70.3 degrees set back in 2009 and 5 degrees below average. Below is the plot of July temperatures for Illinois since 1895. The green dots are the actual temperature for each year, while the red and blue shading […]
What a difference in temperature between July 2012 and 2013. Last year we were in the midst of a full-blown drought and heat wave with temperatures routinely in the 90s and low 100s. The statewide average temperature for July 2012 was 81.8°F (6.5°F above the 1981-2010 average) and the second warmest July in Illinois behind the record of […]
July was one of the hottest and driest on record. So was the year to date. Here are how things stack up so far. How July Ranks This July was the second warmest and fourth driest on record in Illinois, based on preliminary numbers for the month. The statewide average temperature was 81.8 degrees, 6.4 […]
Based on data through yesterday, this July is shaping up to be one of the warmest and driest on record. Based on the forecast, this July is likely to remain as one of the warmest on record. My hope is that we get so much rain in the next week that we are not even close […]
Illinois State Climatologist 