If you love warm weather, I have good news and maybe not so good news about what you can expect this week. Both Missouri and Illinois are likely to have near record (or maybe even all-time marks) high temperatures, but it won't last very long.
If there's one constant about weather in Missouri and Illinois, it's the changeability of it all. That will prove true once again at the end of this week as weather in the Show Me State and Land of Lincoln will change big time yet again.
It's been unseasonably warm in both Missouri and Illinois so far this Fall. If you're enjoying the heat, better soak up as much as you can as the temperatures are about to nosedive soon.
The more things stay the same, the more they change...or something like that. This principle applies to the weather in both Missouri and Illinois and is proven again as weather forecasters have once again changed their forecast for the region now saying it will be way different than normal for the end of 2023.
There's a new experimental forecast tool from the National Weather Service that predicts a Super El Niño is likely and that could be bad news for snow shovels in both Missouri and Illinois.
You've no doubt noticed that it's hot and getting hotter in and around the Rockford area, but how hot do we need to get to tie or break the record that was set in Rockford in 1936?
There's a brand new forecast that claims summer will be the coolest in 6 years. That's great, but before you get excited, know that this doesn't seem to apply to Missouri or Illinois and some other weather experts also don't agree.
After the relatively cool summer we in the Rockford area just experienced, it seems somewhat odd that September would bring along with it a record-breaking heatwave. But it did, and we've got the numbers to prove it.
As I write this, Rockford's current temperature reading is -3 degrees, with a windchill or "feels like" temperature of -19 degrees. If you're feeling cold while wearing long underwear, winter clothes, a heavy jacket, hat, and boots--imagine how your dog must feel.