Elgin Weather About Us

About this site.

This website was created as a public service for residents of Elgin, Il, and surrounding areas. Our weather station is privately owned and operated, and should not be considered an officially recognized station for weather reporting. Our site and station are both a hobby and experiment in weather-related computing.

elginweather.com has been recording weather since June 23, 2004. The weather data is shared with the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration's Citizen Weather Observer Program (CW22217) and others. See our "affiliations" page.

WEATHER FACTS
WHAT CAUSES THUNDER? Thunder is caused by lightning. When a lightning bolt travels from the cloud to the ground it actually opens up a little hole in the air, called a channel. Once then light is gone the air collapses back in and creates a sound wave that we hear as thunder. The reason we see lightning before we hear thunder is because light travels faster than sound!