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 PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO/ROMEOVILLE IL
 330 PM CST THU DEC 01 2005

 ...DRIEST SPRING SUMMER AND FALL ON RECORD FOR NORTHERN ILLINOIS...

 THE NINE MONTH PERIOD FROM MARCH THROUGH NOVEMBER HAS BEEN THE
 DRIEST ON RECORD FOR BOTH CHICAGO AND ROCKFORD. MUCH OF NORTHERN
 ILLINOIS HAS BEEN IN THE GRIPS OF EXTREME DROUGHT CONDITIONS FOR
 MONTHS.

 THE RAINFALL FOR CHICAGO OHARE AIRPORT WAS 5.18 FOR SPRING...5.00
 FOR SUMMER AND 6.36 FOR FALL. THE TOTAL WAS 16.54. NORMAL FOR THE
 THREE SEASONS WOULD BE 30.46. THE PREVIOUS DRIEST SPRING SUMMER AND
 FALL WAS 1887 WHICH HAD 17.23 INCHES AND 1897 WHICH HAD 17.48
 INCHES. PRECIPITATION RECORDS FOR CHICAGO GO BACK TO 1871.

 THE RAINFALL FOR ROCKFORD WAS 3.92 FOR SPRING...9.00 FOR
 SUMMER...AND 4.91 FOR FALL. THE TOTAL WAS 17.83. NORMAL WOULD BE
 31.82. THE PREVIOUS DRIEST WAS 1971 WITH 18.98 INCHES. THERE IS A
 SLIGHT POSSIBILITY THAT 1920 MIGHT HAVE BEEN DRIER BUT DATA FOR MAY
 1920 IS NOT AVAILABLE. THERE WAS 17.64 INCHES FOR THE REMAINING
 EIGHT MONTHS OF SPRING SUMMER AND FALL OF 1920. PRECIPITATION
 RECORDS FOR ROCKFORD GO BACK TO 1906 BUT SOME DATA IS MISSING.

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