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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 IS A FAULT?
A fault is an area of stress in the earth where broken rocks slide past each other, causing a crack in the earth's surface. There are the major types of faults: dip-slip normal, dip-slip reverse, strike-slip, and oblique-slip.
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