An area of low pressure over Oklahoma will move to southern Illinois by 6 pm Thursday. A stationary front stretches northeast from the low across central Missouri and central Illinois. Moisture is being thrown northward up and over the front into the Stateline, and rain showers will continue across the area overnight. Heavier showers will set up over central Illinois with only light rain expected over the Stateline. Amounts should be less than one quarter of an inch. A new Canadian cold front will sweep southward across the area around daybreak. Brisk northeasterly winds will set up on Thursday at 10 to 20 mph with gusts to 25 mph. With drier air feeding in from Canada, skies will become partly cloudy early in the day, but temperatures will be chilly with highs only in the middle 40's before noon. Those temperatures are will fall during the afternoon hours into the upper 30's by late afternoon/ A cold ridge will be in place on Thursday night dropping temperatures into the low 20's. It will be sunny and cool on Friday.
With the ridge to the east on Friday night a short lived warming trend will begin.
Southerly winds will warm temperatures back into the middle 50's on Saturday. The next storm system will spin up over the Texas panhandle on Saturday. This system appears to be destined to take a track much farther to the south than originally thought. The end result for our region will only be a chance of some light rain showers on Sunday. Once that system pulls off to the east there will be an extended period of dry weather with lots of sunshine next week, and a warming trend that will last all week. In fact, it looks like the Stateline will see sidespread 70's on next Thursday on April Fools Day. Although that is pretty far out in the extended forecast, a 75 degree high appears possible on April 1st. If it does reach 75 degrees, that will be the warmest temperature we have seen here in the Stateline since September 27th of last fall...a full 6 months ago.
By Meteorologist
Eric Nefstead
I can't wait for next week's warm up it's long over due, all though the weather without snow on the ground is so much better than what we had for about four months, I thought we had no ground left underneath all that snow lol
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