Historical Climate Data

Precipitation Summary

Station: 111250 CANTON 1 ESE, IL

1971-2000 NCDC Normals

Element Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Ann
Prec. (in) 1.37 1.90 3.06 4.01 4.79 4.32 4.44 3.64 3.55 3.03 3.32 2.42 39.85

Precipitation Extremes

Period of Record: 1940-2004


Month
High (in)
Year
Low (in)
Year 		1-Day
Max (in)
Date
Jan 7.35 1965 0.00 2003 2.96 01-01-1965
Feb 5.54 1997 0.00 2003 3.21 02-21-1997
Mar 6.75 1944 0.24 1994 2.60 03-12-1977
Apr 7.88 1967 0.92 1986 3.32 04-24-1950
May 11.94 1998 0.44 1964 3.57 05-08-1998
Jun 10.38 1990 0.72 1988 5.80 06-20-1964
Jul 12.66 1993 0.42 1957 4.98 07-10-2003
Aug 9.52 1977 0.55 1992 4.68 08-06-1977
Sep 13.00 1961 0.02 1979 3.94 09-22-1970
Oct 10.46 1941 0.05 1964 3.18 10-03-1986
Nov 10.09 1985 0.13 1999 3.20 11-27-1990
Dec 8.92 1982 0.00 2000 4.10 12-02-1982
             
Annual 63.51 1993 21.54 1988 5.80 06-20-1964
Winter 11.98 1950 1.39 1963 4.10 12-02-1982
Spring 22.14 1998 4.45 1971 3.57 05-08-1998
Summer 30.58 1993 4.17 1988 5.80 06-20-1964
Fall 17.56 1961 2.32 2002 3.94 09-22-1970

Precipitation Threshold Climatology

Derived from 1971-2000 Averages:

*Annual/seasonal totals may differ from the sum of the monthly totals due to rounding.


Month 		# Days
Total ≥ 0.01" 		# Days
Total ≥ 0.10" 		# Days
Total ≥ 0.50" 		# Days
Total ≥ 1.00"
Jan 5.7 3.7 0.7 0.2
Feb 4.7 3.7 1.3 0.4
Mar 7.6 5.9 2.2 0.7
Apr 9.3 7.3 2.9 0.9
May 10.5 8.1 3.3 1.4
Jun 8.5 6.9 3.3 1.0
Jul 8.7 6.8 2.9 1.2
Aug 7.6 5.7 2.2 1.0
Sep 6.9 5.7 2.4 0.8
Oct 7.4 5.6 2.4 0.6
Nov 7.4 5.9 2.5 0.8
Dec 6.7 4.8 1.5 0.7
         
Annual 91.3 70.5 27.9 9.6
Winter 17.1 12.3 3.5 1.2
Spring 27.3 21.3 8.4 3.0
Summer 24.8 19.4 8.5 3.2
Fall 21.8 17.1 7.2 2.2

Temperature Summary

There are insufficient temperature data to produce the temperature summary.

Snowfall Summary

Station: 111250 CANTON 1 ESE, IL

1971-2000 Averages

Element Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Ann
Snow (in) 7.6 3.9 1.2 0.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.1 5.1 19.3

Snowfall Extremes

Period of Record: 1940-2004

Month High (in) Year 1-Day Max (in) Date
Jan 27.5 1979 12.0 01-03-1999
Feb 15.2 1989 7.5 02-22-1986
Mar 19.5 1965 8.0 03-25-1957
Apr 6.7 1970 5.0 04-14-1980
May 0.5 1966 0.5 05-09-1966
Jun 0.0 - - -
Jul 0.0 - - -
Aug 0.0 - - -
Sep 0.0 - - -
Oct 2.0 1967 2.0 10-27-1967
Nov 10.0 1974 6.0 11-13-1974
Dec 21.0 1951 10.0 12-19-1973
Season (Jul-Jun) 48.0 1951-1952 12.0 01-03-1999

Snowfall Threshold Climatology

Derived from 1971-2000 Averages

*Annual values may differ from the sum of the monthly values due to rounding.


Month 		# Days
Total ≥ 0.1" 		# Days
Total ≥ 1.0" 		# Days
Total ≥ 2.0" 		# Days
Total ≥ 5.0"
Jan 1.5 1.4 1.0 0.2
Feb 1.5 1.4 1.0 0.2
Mar 0.6 0.4 0.3 0.1
Apr 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0
May 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Jun 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Jul 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Aug 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Sep 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Oct 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Nov 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.0
Dec 2.3 1.8 1.2 0.2
Annual 7.5 6.1 4.2 0.6

Growing Season Summary

There are insufficient temperature data to produce the growing season summary.

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Copyright 2007 Illinois State Water Survey
Jim Angel, State Climatologist, jimangel@illinois.edu
Last Modified: September 11, 2007