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Wet September Sets Rain Records Across Southern Illinois
Southern Illinois University reports a 19 station September rainfall average of 8.11 inches, far above the 3.36 normal, with Anna posting 11.78 inches and several towns setting monthly or yearly records. Betsy remnants boosted totals on Sept 11–12, while harvests suffered from soggy fields and stalk rot in corn and soybeans. The nine month totals remain mostly below normal, and temperatures ran about one degree cooler than average.
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Southern Illinois
Southern Illinois University Climatology Laboratory
Anna
Cairo
Elizabethtown
Makanda
Betsy
Mississippi Valley
Sparta
DuQuoin
Mt. Vernon
McLeansboro
Benton
Harrisburg
Illinois
Glendale