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By RFD Radio/WFMB
SPRINGFIELD – Farmers and backyard gardeners can always tell you if the weather has been wetter than normal, but this year everyone should be able to identify that the state has seen more rain than average.
State Climatologist Jim Angel with the Illinois Water Survey said that we’ve just passed through the wettest July through August ever.
“We got a little over 13 inches for those two months combined and that’s about 5.5 inches above normal and it beats the old record set in 1915,” Angel said. “That record stood for a long time and we really crashed though that the last couple of weeks.”
A dryer start to September would be welcome to farmers who are ready to start harvest.
