If Farmer's Almanac is right, Illinois could be in for a very interesting Spring as the time around Easter is predicted to be nice, but the rest of the season will be 'unsettled'.
The new Spring outlook for Illinois from the Old Farmer's Almanac is predicting that Illinois will experience three completely different types of weather this Spring.
If you think weather is hard to predict looking just a few days ahead, you should try to do it one more season ahead. Farmer's Almanac is famous for long-range forecasting and they've just predicted that Illinois will get drenched once Spring arrives.
I wouldn't lose any sleep over this if I were you (yet), but Illinois is being warned to brace itself for a major winter storm that is allegedly coming for one specific week in January of 2025.
Something has changed over the span of a couple weeks. Unless my memory has failed me, Illinois was included in an area Farmer's Almanac said that along with Missouri was in for a more or less ordinary winter. Now, the Land of Lincoln has a forecast described as a 'wet winter whirlwind'.