This was a beautiful site to see on our radar. The heavy snow finally moving out earlier this afternoon, and it continued to die down as we moved through the evening. There's still a few spots of lingering flurries and light snow down in Ogle County, but this will be gone by 7pm, after which we stay dry for the rest of the weekend!
The western half of the Stateline took quite the punch from Old Man Winter, with some areas in Whiteside county seeing upwards of 8-8.5 inches. The range of accumulation for the western half as a whole was anywhere between 3-7 inches of snowfall.
As for the east side, there wasn't any?! The east side of the Stateline's accumulation was expected to be smaller, but something took place overnight that doesn't happen a whole lot with meteorology.
A high pressure to the northeast strengthened quite a bit during the overnight. This caused it to push heavy amounts of dry air into the Stateline area. This affected the east side, which is why the snow couldn't make it over as it kept evaporating every time it got close to the eastern half of the Stateline.
Along with that, the low pressure that brought us the snow was pulling in lots of moisture from the southwest. This created a tight wind gradient between the easterly winds from the high, and the southerly winds from the low. This wind gradient trapped the moisture to the western half of the Stateline, keeping is from moving further eastward.
Now that the snow is gone, all we've got to look forward to is warmer weather! We'll start to see those temperatures warm up as we head into next week. We'll see the mid 40's for Sunday, and get plenty of sunshine with it.
This low pressure system will move in for the start of the work week, bringing us into the 50's for the start of the work week, and near 60° on Tuesday. However, we are expecting some rain for Monday and Tuesday, but for Wednesday and Thursday we'll get lots of sunshine and keep the 50° weather!
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