Photos courtesy: Dan Alsager, Park Forest, Illinois
The deluges which swept sections of the Chicago metro area hit Chicago's South Side and south suburban areas especially hard Thursday. That's evident from Dan Alsager's rain gauge in Park Forest pictured here. Dan snapped these shots and relayed them to me at 6 p.m. Thursday evening. Park Forest wasn't alone with big rains. A late-arriving report on Thursday's rainfall from Barbara Rogers in Valparaiso, Ind., indicates her rain gauge had collected 5.4" of rain. Dr. Jim Angel, Illinois' state climatologist at the Midwestern Regional Climate Center indicates the 2.43" in 78 minutes at Midway Airport and on Chicago's South Side in repetitive ("training") thunderstorms Thursday evening works out to be a one-in-ten-year rain!
--Tom Skilling
