Great Weather for Little Ghosts and Goblins

Low pressure is pushing east across central Wisconsin this evening. An associated cold front drops southward from the low across Illinois, southeastern Missouri, into northeastern Texas. The system produced light rain amounting to a few hundredths of an inch. As of 10 pm cdt all of the precipitation was east of the Greater Rockford area. Skies will clear for a time this evening before backwash clouds move back in around midnight. Those clouds should break up before morning as drier air from Iowa is drawn eastward across northern Illinois. The ovenight low will be in the middle 30's. On Monday weak high pressure will make an attempt to take control of area weather providing partly sunny skies. The afternoon high will be cool... reaching into the low 50's. It will be mostly clear and cool on Halloween evening. Temperatures, during the early evening, when Trick or Trreating will be taking place, will be in the 40's with light winds. The overnight low will be around 34 degrees. A nice warm up will take place on Tuesday with southwesterly winds bringing warmer weather into northern Illinois. It will be mostly sunny with a high in the low 60's. The warmer weather will be short lived, however, as a cold front approaches rapidly from the west. Temperatures will reach the upper 50's on Wednesday morning before the front arrives, but it will get colder during the afternoon after the cold front passes off to the east. It will be mostly cloudy with scattered showers developing behind the front. A new low will spin up on the front near St. Louis on Wednesday night. That will slow the progress of the front to the east, and bring the Stateline a good chance of showers on Wednesday night. It will be mostly cloudy, breezy and cool with some lingering showers possible on Thursday. The high on Thursday will only be around 48 degrees. A ridge of high pressure will move across the area on Friday making for a day with partly sunny skies and seasonal temperatures around 53 degrees in the afternoon. On Saturday a major fall storm will blow up over Kansas. This could produce an early season snowstorm across parts of the northern plains from Saturday through Sunday morning. A strong southerly air flow will tap air out of the Gulf of Mexico, and bring it northward finto the midwest by Saturday afternoon. Temperatures will warm into the upper 50's, and possibly even into the low 60's by Saturday afternoon. Rain showers will develop. and possibly even some thunderstorms later on Saturday or Saturday evening as the intense low pressure storm center moves rapidly toward the northeast to a position over western lake Superior by 6 am on Sunday morning. It will be windy on Saturday, and windy and colder on Sunday.