6/29 – 7/2 Rainfall Totals: Much needed drought relief finally comes …

After severe drought conditions expanded across the area this week, a weekend full of rain has helped to turn things around for a lot of communities that had started to lose hope that anything meaningful would come in a timely manner. The action got started Thursday Morning as a round of storms with large hail kicked off the day, followed by the heavy rain and strong winds of a derecho later that afternoon. Combine that with 3 + rounds of showers and storms in between then and Sunday, and some places managed to pile upwards of 6 inches!

| READ: Five tornadoes reported in Central Illinois as part of June 29th derecho

You can see the Thursday through Sunday rainfall totals below. Places listed twice are major towns that received multiple rainfall reports. In this case, the highest report and lowest report were the 2 listed, with every other report for that town falling somewhere in the middle.

NOTE: Some of these CoCoRaHS reports came from areas outside of towns….