This year's April, May and June were some of the region's driest on record, and it will take several weeks of consistent rain for gardens, streams and crops to find relief.
Despite recent scattered rainstorms in some Chicago suburbs, severe drought continues to have a hold on much of the state after an extremely dry three months.
"With flooding, we're losing a significant proportion of that rain that we're getting to runoff," state climatologist Trent Ford said."The runoff goes into our streams and then out into rivers out in Illinois, gone. It's not really helping us from an agricultural standpoint, from an ecology standpoint, from my standpoint. The streams go up, and then they come right back down because base flow is really low. So it's good, but it's not enough.
"In this stressful time for trees and plants, it's important to understand and provide the special care they need," Spencer Campbell, the Arboretum's Plant Clinic manager, said in a statement."Wilting leaves are a sign of drought stress, but it's better to keep plants supplied with enough water before they get stressed enough to wilt."
While larger, established trees have wide root systems and don't need to be watered as frequently, trees and shrubs need at least once inch of water through a long, slow soak every week to 10 days to cope with lack of rain, Campbell said. "The concerns are definitely there. ... The book's not written yet. If we have consistent rains through July and August, we could still make a decent crop in a lot of places," Ford said."We have seen some effects, but the magnitude of those won't really be understood until we get closer to harvest.
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