By RFD Radio/WFMB
SPRINGFIELD – No matter where you live in Illinois you knew it has been a mild winter and now we are finding out just how much warmer it was.
Climatologist Jim Angel with the Illinois State Water Survey said this past February was a record smasher.
“That makes it the warmest February on record,” Angel said. “It’s also 9.6 degrees above normal, so it’s probably no surprise. We had a lot of 60- and 70-degree weather at the end of the month and that really pushed us over the top.
The weather wasn’t wetter though. The warmer trend brought little snow and scattered rain showers. The month goes down as the ninth driest February.
