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Galesburg winter 5th mildest on record

Meteorological winter or the lack thereof turned to spring earlier this week. 

National Weather Service meteorologist Kirk Huettl reports that this year the Galesburg area experienced the fifth mildest meteorological winter on record. 

He says snowfall totals between December and February totaled at 8.2 inches–that’s 11.4 inches less than what was recorded last year. 

Huettl tells WGIL that Galesburg was an anomaly for the region.

“Actually our northwest part around Galesburg was our furthest below normal in snowfall amount for this past winter than anywhere else in our area,” Huettl says. “Most of our area was five to ten inches below normal but the Galesburg area was almost a foot below.”

Total precipitation for the season was fairly standard and only slightly above normal, while average temperature was nearly 4.5 degrees above normal. 

Huettl adds that for both precipitation and temperature, December stands out.

“That month alone kind of stood out as being one of the wetter and milder months on record, but then January and February were drier than normal.”

The results come on the heels of State Climatologist Jim Angel’s statewide report. Angel told the Associated Press earlier this week that Illinois as a whole experienced the seventh warmest winter and the 11th wettest ever recorded for the state.

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