Things Could Get a Little Dicey Overnight

After being mostly cloudy all day, clearing took place in the Rockford area just before sunset. With a warm front lying just off to the southwest, and a disturbance over the northern plains, clouds will spread across the area once again early tonight. The disturbance associated with the front could cause a little light snow after midnight. With warm air above the surface and temperatures at the surface just a few degrees below freezing, the light snow may change to light freezing rain. Caution is advised across the Stateline for the possibility that roads may become glazed causing treacherous driving conditions. Temperatures will rise above freezing early in the morning on Thursday ending the threat. It will become breezy under partly cloudy skies, and much warmer with an unseasonably high afternoon temperature of around 45 degrees. Another in a series of disturbances will roll into the area on Thursday night. There appears to be a little better set up, and more moisture avaiable so that a rain/snow mix are likely. No snow accumulation is likely because overnight temperatures are expected to remain above freezing. There could be a little rain/snow mix lingering into Friday morning. Temperatures in the afternoon will rise to near 40 so that any precipation that falls in the afternoon will be in the form of light rain. Another surge of unseasonably mild air will push across the Stateline on Saturday taking temperatures back into the middle 40's. A system will be approaching northern Illinois on New Year's Eve. so it will become mostly cloudy, and there is a slight chance of some light rain showers with a low in the middle 30's. It will be partly cloudy, windy, and turning colder on Sunday with a high of 38 degrees early in the day, but temperatures will be falling all day reaching the upper 20's by late afteroon. Overnight lows on Sunday night will drop to the low 20's, and high's will only be in the middle 20's on Monday. That's quite a shock compared to what we are used to. Temperatures will moderate by midweek.