Fabulous Sunday

The disturbance that caused the snowfall across the area overnight has moved well off to the east. Skies will clear overnight as a broad area of Pacific high pressure takes full control of Stateline weather. The average low temperatures this time of year are around 17 degrees. It will not get that cold tonight despite clearing skies. The overnight low is expected to be in the lower 20's. Sunday will be sunny and warmer.  It will become breezy in the afternoon with a high close to 40 degrees. Sunday is the pick day of the week.  The rest of the week our area will see highs in the 30's, and be warmer than average for this time of year. A low pressure system will pass well to the south of the Stateline on Tuesday through Tuesday night. It is not a particularly strong system, and the distance will keep our chance of precipitation low on Tuesday when there is a slight chance of some light rain showers. On Tuesday night there is a slight chance that some light snow showers could mix with the light rain showers... especially to the north of Rockford into southern Wisconsin. If the system tracked just a little farther to the north, was stronger, and was able to draw more cold air, then there would be better chances that the Stateline would see a White Christmas. The only other chance of snow before Christmas is with the passage of another Pacific type of cold front on Friday. Really it does not look like much of a chance at all because it appears as if our area will only receive some flurries with that system.