Timing the Tuesday Rain

A cloudy mild start on Tuesday, turns wet and raining in the early afternoon. An approaching low pressure system, the remnant of hurricane Patricia, will move north through the day. Ahead of this system, showers are already developing and moving into southern portions of the Stateline. By 11am rain will be moving into central Carroll, Ogle, and Dekalb counties, including the Sterling area. Rockford will notice the rain by lunch time, so if you were planning on going out for lunch, you'll want the umbrella on stand by. Steady rain will continue overnight and into portions of your Wednesday. With ample moisture to work with, from the Gulf of Mexico as well as remaining moisutre from hurricane Patricia, rain totals look to amount to 0.5-1.00" through Wednesday afternoon. However, a 'dry-slot' of air will develop and move into the Stateline through Wednesday afternoon. This could end the rain a little earlier, and cut back on rainfall totals. Most of the rain will be over with by late Wednesday afternoon, however behind the departing low pressure system, there could be just enough lift rotating through to fire up more lighter showers Wednesday night into Thursday morning.


The State Climate Office for Illinois along with the Illinois State Water Survey, has ranked this October as the second driest on record. Good news is, after the rain today and tomorrow, we will have dropped in the rankings. You can see them below: