According to the Associated Press, the National Weather Service says this week's rainfall makes 2008 the wettest on record in central Illinois.
Meteorologist James Auten works at the weather service office in Lincoln. Illinois. He says rainfall on Tuesday pushed this year's rainfall to more than 51 inches. Auten says that beats the 1927 record of 50.8 inches.
These records have been kept since 1905.
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