PEORIA, Ill. — It could be a record setting day for heat in the Peoria area today and we’ve already been in record-setting territory this week, according to the National Weather Service.
NWS Forecaster Kirk Huettl says the record high temperature for May 11th in Peoria was set back in 2011 at 91 degrees.
Our forecast high of 92 degrees for Wednesday could certainly beat that number.
Peoria is already poised to see it’s warmest overnight low temperature ever for this day.
Hutter says the low temperature early Wednesday was measured at 73 degrees, which would beat the warm low record of 70 degrees, also set back in 2011.
On Tuesday, Peoria nearly beat a warmth record set all the way back in the 19th Century.
Thursday’s high temps will also approach all time single day records.
When asked, Huetter said it was definitely “hot for early May” in Central Illinois right now.
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