Right now the attention is on the widespread flooding in Texas and Oklahoma, with the number of deaths sitting at 21 and climbing. Illinois has been faced with deadly flooding in the past. An examination of the national storm database reveals that Illinois has had 28 flood-related deaths in the last 19 years*. Here are […]
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Recently, an undergraduate in the Department of Atmospheric Science at the University of Illinois helped me look at the tornado statistics for Illinois. Among the things we plotted were the number of deaths and injuries reported in Illinois since 1950. The first thing you will notice in both the deaths and injuries per year are […]
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