Local Climatological Data Summary: Carbondale, Illinois, 1894-1994

Bryan, Audrey A.; Wendland, Wayne

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Title

Local Climatological Data Summary: Carbondale, Illinois, 1894-1994

Author(s)

• Bryan, Audrey A.
• Wendland, Wayne

Issue Date

1995

Keyword(s)

• Carbondale, Illinois
• Jackson County, Illinois
• temperate continental climate
• climatology

Abstract

"Carbondale (Jackson County) has a temperate continental climate, dominated by maritime tropical air from the Gulf of Mexico from about April through November. Gulf air generally supports relative humidities of about 60% during the day and 85% at night. This is the airmass which yields a warm to hot, ""muggy"" environment, particularly from May through October. There are occasional, brief interruptions of drier, cooler air from the Pacific Ocean, but they typically only last a few days. The climate of southern Illinois is decidedly less wintery than that of northern Illinois, in both intensity and duration."

Publisher

Illinois State Water Survey

Series/Report Name or Number

ISWS Miscellaneous Publication MP-098-18

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