More of Illinois has been upgraded to a Severe Drought in the U.S. Drought Monitor's latest update. Crop damage remains the primary concern in central Illinois, but high fire danger and water shortages also pose a problem for the summer months.
We saw a few light showers move through the metro area yesterday morning, but we still only recorded 0.01" of rain at the airport. This puts us well behind for the month, season, and year. To give you some perspective, during the drought of 1988, the month of July only saw 0.33" of rain that year and remains the driest July on record for Peoria.
Not many chances for a good soaking rain look to pop up in our 8 day outlook. However, we could see a good chance at a few storms in the area early this weekend.
Two waves of upper level energy will slide in over the next few days, hopefully bringing some rain with them. The first will slide in on Friday afternoon, popping up a few storms in the southeast. The next wave will dive in from the northwest on Saturday, keeping rain chances into the weekend.
We'll dry things out early next week with breezy southwesterly winds taking temperatures into the lo to mid 90s through the middle of next week.
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