Rockford Weather

We're hearing about a record number of Americans who will be traveling this upcoming Thanksgiving holiday including over 2 million Illinois residents planning to drive to their destination. That could be challenging with the snow in the forecast the weekend after Turkey Day.

It wasn't that many years ago kids had to wear snow boots with their Halloween costumes after several inches of early-season snow accumulated in the Stateline.

A weather system that is dumping heavy wet snow on some states in the western part of the U.S. will arrive in Illinois by this weekend, according to the Weather Channel.

Chicago's average first snow happens by November 16, but it has happened as early as October 12, according to the Weather Channel.

Everything I have been reading about what's coming to Northern Illinois and Wisconsin this winter says it's going to be brutal.

Below-average temperatures and lots of snowstorms, sleet, ice, and rain this winter.

If you've been enjoying these cool mornings and fall-like temperatures around the Rockford region, it kind of makes you hope the hot days of summer are done.

As Illinois tries to reform after melting earlier this week, the big question is when should we expect to hate life again?

It's been a historic couple of days in northern Illinois with some of the highest heat indexes ever recorded hitting 115 to 120 degrees in some areas of the Stateline.

When temperatures get this hot in Illinois and Wisconsin and we have extremely high energy prices, some residents of the Stateline may try anything to save money.