August Arrives w/Warmer Weather

BY JIM TAYLOR, FARM WEEK NOW

The saying “all good things must come to an end” especially applies to the weather. 

State Climatologist Jim Angel, with the Illinois State Water Survey, said the state’s recent stretch of unseasonably cool temperatures for the latter portion of July will soon be over, replaced by more typical summer conditions.

“We’ll soon be getting back into the hot, humid weather we all know and love in Illinois,” Angel told the RFD Radio Network® on Tuesday.

That means a gradual warmup into the mid-80s in some parts of Illinois and low 90s in others later this week.

“Even the six- to 10-day and eight- to 14-day forecast also indicates that we’re going to see that warming continue that far out,” Angel said. “It looks like a very hot start to August, just in time for the state fair.”

Rain has been spotty throughout most of Illinois over the last seven days.

“It was mostly concentrated across the central part of the state, really along Interstate 72 for the most part,” Angel said. “We had a lot of areas that got 2 to 4 inches of rain and a couple of areas got even more than that.”

But if you went a little further north or south, there wasn’t much rain recorded from that event.