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A change in the weather

September cooler, wetter than normal

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — September was the first cooler- and wetter-than-normal month in 2012, according to Illinois State Climatologist Jim Angel of the Illinois State Water Survey at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.

The statewide average temperature for September in Illinois was 64.6 degrees, 1.6 degrees cooler than normal. This was the first cooler-than-normal month of 2012, and, in fact, the first cooler-than-normal month since September of 2011.

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