Around 10 inches of rain hit fields in the top corn and soybean producing county in the US over the weekend.
Illinois State Climatologist Trent Ford tells Brownfield in McLean and neighboring DeWitt and Piatt counties that exceeded the 100-year rainfall totals for a three-day period, meaning there is only a 1% chance for this type of event in any given year.
“Some of those areas in southern McLean County got closer to the 500-year rainfall event for a three-day period, so very extreme.””
The Illinois State Water Survey’s estimated 100-year three-day total is 8.98 inches and the estimated 500-year three day total 10.81 inches.
