•February 8, 2017•

The statewide average temperature in January was 31.4 degrees, 5.0 degrees above normal, and the 14th warmest January on record, according to Illinois State Climatologist Jim Angel of the Illinois State Water Survey, University of Illinois.

Above-normal temperatures in January spanned the state and the eastern half of the U.S.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.