2011-07-11-Weather-Derecho

Monday morning’s storm event was over before it even started.  At around 7:45 am a squall line with damaging winds of up to 60 mph. arrived into our area.  This storm system started in the western states on Sunday afternoon and by Monday night it finally blew of the eastern coast totalling a 1.400 mile […]

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2011-Weather-June

Coming off the heels of wet months, June tallys 14 measureable rainfall events and will be the 5th wettest June in 84 years. The total amount of precipation measured at O’Hare was 3.39″ however Midway totalled 7.29″. Our monitoring rain gauge calculated 3.27″. Early in the month we had periods of hot and of course […]

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