 The highest temperature for the month was reported at Carbondale,
with 65 degrees on Dec. 31. The lowest temperature for the month was
reported at both Stockton and Elizabeth, with minus 10 degrees on
Dec. 14 and 15, respectively.Snowfall was above normal throughout
the state in December and heaviest in a band from northwest into
east-central Illinois. Snowfall totals for December include 20.4
inches in Champaign-Urbana, for their snowiest December on record;
18.1 inches in Bloomington-Normal, their second-snowiest December;
and 19.2 inches in Peoria, their third-snowiest December.
Champaign-Urbana beat both Rockford's 19.2 inches and the Chicago
O'Hare Airport total of 16.2 inches on snowfall.
The largest snowfall total reported in the state was 30.0 inches
near Galena. Streator reported 28.5 inches.
Even though snowfall was above average in most locations, the
average statewide precipitation was only 1.8 inches, 0.9 inch below
normal.
Precipitation is a combination of rainfall and the water content
of any snow.
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The Illinois State Water
Survey, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is a
division of the Institute of Natural Resource Sustainability and is
the primary agency in Illinois concerned with water and atmospheric
resources.
[Text from file received from
the Illinois
State Water Survey] |
