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More rain on the way for Illinois
Illinois has received above average rainfall since January and a climatologist says April will follow that trend.
Brian Kerschner is with the Illinois State Climatologist’s office.
“The Climate Prediction Center’s six to ten-day outlook is currently favoring continued probabilities of wetter than average conditions for Illinois. Basically, a prediction that the active storm pattern that we have been experiencing is expected to continue into the first weeks of April.”
He tells Brownfield soil moisture levels in Illinois rank in the 90th percentile or higher and the National Weather Service places the entire state in a flood risk zone through the end of May.
“With eastern and central Illinois subject to a minor flood risk, while western, extreme northern and southern portions of the state are in a moderate flood risk and unfortunately, locations immediately along the banks of the Mississippi River in western Illinois are placed in the major flood risk zone.”
On a more positive note, Kerschner says temperatures across the state will reach into the 60’s and 70’s by the end of the weekend, which will be a change from the state’s second coldest April in 2018.
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