Record Breaking Thanksgiving

A slow moving cold front has dumped quite a bit of rain across the Stateline, with totals reaching about 1-2," and more in some places. Rockford received about an inch and three quarters, and Monroe picked up over two inches of rain.


This broke a couple records for the day; both the record for the 26th and for the Thanksgiving holiday. The daily total for Rockford was officially 1.51" beating out the old record of 0.81" from Thanksgiving of 1918, which fell on the 28th. The 1.51" inches Rockford received broke the daily record for the 26th. The old record was recorded in 1934 with 1.30 inches.

As we know, it has been a very soggy month. Precipitation totals so far this month have exceeded four and a half inches, with Rockford so far picking up 4.76" of rain. Normally for this time of year the average is 2.25" putting us 2.51 inches above average