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.
Accuweather is predicting a "big transition" in the weather pattern for parts of the Midwest when they say "chillier air around the end of September" could mean an early frost for Chicago, Milwaukee, and Rockford.
While those who live in the southern U.S. states have been dealing with brutally hot temperatures, in the upper midwest we've been pretty lucky with hardly any stretches of extreme heat.
We've only had a couple of days in mid-April where temperatures in northern Illinois barely reached into the lower 80s, but other than that it seems like this spring has been pretty chilly so far.
This midwestern springtime weather has been giving some people in the Rockford region PTSD with the drastic changes in temperature that have been happening.