| Significant Weather Events in Peotone Illinois |
| Peotone's Significant Weather -----2011----- | |
| Nov 10th 2011- Our Our first Snowfall and first measureable snowfall of the year (0.2in). |
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| Sep 11th and 12th 2011- Our 86th and 87th days of 80F temp or above in 2011. |
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| Sep 3rd 2011- It hit 92.2.8F. This is the 36th 90F temp or above in 2011. It is also our 85th day over 80F. |
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| Sep 2nd 2011- It hit 93.8F. This is the 35th 90F temp or above in 2011. It is also our 84th day over 80F. |
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| Sep 1st 2011- It hit 97.3F. This is the 34th 90F temp or above in 2011. It is also our 83rd day over 80F. |
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| Aug 31st 2011- It hit 92.0F. This is the 33rd 90F temp or above in 2011. It is also our 82nd day over 80F. |
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| Aug 24th 2011- It hit 92.4F. This is the 32nd 90F temp or above in 2011. It is also our 77th day over 80F. |
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| Aug 23rd 2011- It only hit 72.7F. This is our coolest high temp in two months (june 24th 2011 67.3F). |
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| Aug 14th 2011- It only hit 75.7F. This is our coolest high temp in two months (june 24th 2011 67.3F). |
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| Aug 13th 2011- With storms arround 4pm Peotone was hit by hail for 10 minutes. The largest hail was 1 inch in diameter. Alot of people have plant damage from the hail. The good news is we picked up another 0.55 inches of rain. -It is also our 71st day over 80F. |
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| Aug 12th 2011-For the year we have 29.36 inches of precip. On average at the end of August we are supposed to have 27.28 inches. So for the year we are ahead 2.08 inches plus any more that falls durring August. However July was 1.59 inches below the average July rainfall. Add to that the "HEAT" durring July (19 days over 90F and 2 of those at 100F) and you have drier than normal conditions. We are not classified as drought but our grass, plants, and crops can use more rain. -It is also our 70th day over 80F. |
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| Aug 7th 2011- It hit 90.7F. This is the 31st 90F temp or above in 2011. It is also our 63rd day over 80F. |
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| Aug 6th 2011- It hit 90.0F. This is the 30th 90F temp or above in 2011. It is also our 62nd day over 80F. |
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| Aug 2nd 2011- It hit 94.2F. This is the 29th 90F temp or above in 2011. It is also our 61st day over 80F. |
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| July 27th 2011- It hit 92.5F. This is the 24th 90F temp or above in 2011. |
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| July 24th 2011- 1.03 inches of rain. It is also our 52nd day over 80F. |
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| July 23rd 2011- It hit 93.9F. This is the 23rd 90F temp or above in 2011. It is also our 51st day over 80F. |
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| July 22nd 2011- It hit 91.2F. This is the 22nd day over 90F this year and the 50th day over 80F this year. It is also the 7th day in a row over 90F. Finally 14 out of 22 days this month have been 90F or more. |
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| July 21st 2011- Reords are made to be broken! Today was the hottest air temp ever recorded here, 100.5F, a new record for peotoneweather.com. This is the 21st day of 90F or higher this year. Remember we only had 24 days over 90 all of last year. We still have all of August left to pile on the 90F temps. |
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| July 20th 2011- New Record high for this date in Peotone and the Highest temp ever recorded by peotoneweather.com 100.1F! Today also was the highest heat index ever recorded by peotoneweather.com 120.5F. Tomorrow should be a couple degrees cooler if the clouds come in as expected. Otherwise it may get near 100F again. |
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| July 20th 2011- We have a chance at breaking a record today...At least for peotoneweather.com. For the 6 years or so that I have had the weather station in Peotone the highest temp recorded (with real scientific equipment) is 99.1F on july 31st 2006. The forecast high today is 99F. 100F or 101F is not out of the question! |
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| July 19th 2011- It hit 96.3F. This is the 19th 90F temp or above in 2011. It is also our 46th day over 80F. Also was the hottest feeling day ever recorded by peotoneweather.com with a heat index of 116.1. |
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| July 18th 2011- It hit 90.8F. This is the 18th 90F temp or above in 2011. It is also our 45th day over 80F. |
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| July 17th 2011- It hit 96.0F. This is the 17th 90F temp or above in 2011. It is also our 44th day over 80F. |
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| July 16th 2011- It hit 90.6F. This is the 16th 90F temp or above in 2011. It is also our 43rd day over 80F. |
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| July 12th 2011- It hit 92.9F. This is the 15th 90F temp or above in 2011. |
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| July 11th 2011- It hit 91.7F. This is the 14th 90F temp or above in 2011. |
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| July 10th 2011- It hit 91.6F. This is the 13th 90F temp or above in 2011. |
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| July 09th 2011- It hit 91.9F. This is the 12th 90F temp or above in 2011. |
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| July 06th 2011- It hit 90.2F. This is the 11th 90F temp or above in 2011. |
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| July 05th 2011- It hit 92.7F. This is the 10th 90F temp or above in 2011. |
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| July 02nd 2011- It hit 94.5F. This is the 9th 90F temp or above in 2011. Also highest heat index of the year 113.0F |
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| June 17th 2011- It hit 91.0F. This is the 8th 90F temp or above in 2011. |
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| June 07th 2011- It hit 98.8F. This is the second highest Temperature reading I have ever had. This is the 7th 90F temp or above in 2011. It is the hottest day of the year so far, and the hottest day in almost 5 years. The heat index was only 103.6F. We have had higher heat indexes a bunch of times over the last 5 years. The last 98F reading in Peotone was August 1st 2006. The day before that on July 31st 2006 it hit 99.1F. That is the hottest reading I have had since I started the weather station in July of 2006 here in Peotone. |
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| June 06th 2011- It hit 95.6F. This is the 6th 90F temp or above in 2011. It is the hottest day of the year so far, and the hottest day in almost 3 years. The heat index was only 101.8F. We have had higher heat indexes a bunch of times over the last 3 years. |
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| June 04th 2011- It hit 95.1F. This is the 5th 90F temp or above in 2011. It is the hottest day of the year so far, and the hottest day in almost 2 years. The heat index was 106.9F. We had higher heat indexes a couple of times over the last 2 years. |
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| May 30th 2011- It hit 91.7F. This is the 4th 90F temp or above in 2011. |
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| May 25th and 26th 2011- 3.60 inches of rain over these 2 days. |
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| May 12th 2011- It hit 91.8F. This is the 3rd 90F temp or above in 2011. |
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| May 11th 2011- It hit 92.3F. |
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| May 10th 2011- It hit 93.1F. This is now the warmest day of 2011 so far. |
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| April 10th 2011- It hit 80.0F t noon. It could flirt with 90F later today. It is also the warmest day since October 11th. If the temp gets above 86 it will be the warmest day since last September 23rd, almost 7 months ago. |
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| April 03rd 2011- It hit 78.7F this afternoon. Warmest day of 2011 so far. Also recorded a 43mph wind gust. It is the highest wind gust of the year so far. |
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| March 17th 2011- It hit 70F this afternoon. It was our first 70F temp of 2011. |
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| March 04th 2011- It hit 61F this afternoon. It was the warmest day in 3.5 months, and our first 60F temp of 2011. |
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| February 10th 2011- Coldest night in 2 years. It was -7.9F and the wind chill was -24.5F |
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| February 02nd and 3rd 2011- BLIZZARD!!! Snow accumulation of 16.1 inches at 10am 2/2/11. Peak wind gust was 42mph here in town. |
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| January 31st 2011- Snow accumulation of 1.0 inches |
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| January 27th 2011- Snow accumulation of 1.8 inches |
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| January 23rd 2011- Snow accumulation of 0.5 inches |
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| January 22nd 2011- Snow accumulation of 0.5 inches |
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| January 17th 2011- Ice accumulation of 0.1 inches |
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| January 11th 2011- Snow accumulation of 2.6 inches |
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| January 07th 2011- Snow accumulation of 0.6 inches |
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| January 06th 2011- Snow accumulation of 0.8 inches |
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| January 1st 2011-In 2010 we recieved a total precipitation (rain and melted snow) of 42.52 inches. Normal precipitation for the year is 40.22 inches. We finished with a surplus of 2.30 inches. |
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