Argonne National Laboratory staff who collected the primary meteorological data; Jennie Atkins, the director of Water and Atmospheric Resource Monitoring (WARM) program of Illinois State Water Survey (ISWS) for providing the data from St. Charles and DeKalb, Illinois; Midwestern Regional Climate Center (MRCC) of ISWS website (http://mrcc.isws.illinois.edu/CLIMATE/index.jsp) for providing dew point temperature from the climate station at O'Hare International Airport; DuPage County stormwater department for the precipitation data in and around DuPage county, Illinois; and U.S. Geological Survey Central Midwest Water Science Center field staff for collecting precipitation, stage, and discharge data.