According to the National Weather Service, we got about 1.5 inches of snow accumulation in Rockford on Sunday (11/26), and there's more in the upcoming forecast.
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.
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.
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.