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| Significant Weather Events in Peotone Illinois |
| Peotone's Significant Weather -----2013----- | |
| May 14th 2013- 90.2F at 4:46pm. This is Peotone's first 90F temp of 2013. With yesterday mornings low temp of 33.8F and todays high temp of 90.2F, that gives us a 2 day temp swing of 56.4F. That is the new all time record 2 day swing in the month of May for Peotone! |
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| April 30th 2013- 85.6F the 1st 80F reading this year! Last year we had 9 days at or above 80F in March!!! |
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| April 18th 2013- 4.93 inches of rain over the last 4 days. |
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| April 06th 2013- 71.3F the 1st 70F reading this year! |
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| March 30th 2013- Easter Sunday and the 1st 60F reading this spring! We hit 60F 1 other time back on January 29th |
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| March 05th 2013- Peotones biggest snowfall of the winter and the biggest snowfall in 2 years. 7.8 inches of snow. Our total for the winter has jumped to 17.5 inches, which is still way below normal. Below is a graph/map issued by the NWS that shows how much snow fell accross Northern Illinois. |
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| March 2nd 2013- So far this winter we have recieved 9.7 inches of snow. Last winter we recieved 20.9 inches of snow. The 30 year average winter snowfall for Peotone is 30.7 inches. No matter how you look at it we are behind on snowfall at this point. The good news though is that for January and February, We usually get 3.02 inches of precip (rain and melted snow). So far this year (Jan and Feb) we have had 4.93 inches of rain and melted snow. We finished last year with a deficit of 8.8 inches of precip. So we have already started to eat in to that number. With any luck this trend will continue. |
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| January 28th 2013- The last time Peotone had a 1 inch snowfall or more was one year ago today. |
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| January 27th 2013- Freezing rain! Just enough to to make all the walks and streets in town slick. |
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| January 2nd 2013- So far in the winter of 2012-2013 we have only had 0.5in of snow. Normaly 9 inches has accumulated by January 1st. So we are 8.5 inches behind in snowfall. |
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| January 1st 2013- In 2012 we recieved a total precipitation (rain and melted snow) of 31.42 inches. Normal precipitation for the year is 40.22 inches. We finished with a deficit of 8.80 inches. |
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