Friday Evening Update

It has been a fall-like Friday for the Stateline. It's been cloudy, foggy, soggy, and quite cool with temperatures remaining in the 60's through the afternoon and evening. Along with that, it's been quite breezy too, with southerly winds sustained near 10-20mph, adding to the fall feel.

Drizzle and scattered showers have been persistent this evening, but despite the thick cloud cover a few widely scattered to isolated storms will be possible this evening and overnight. Northern Illinois, southern Wisconsin, and eastern Iowa are included in a marginal risk of strong to severe storms.

Through the next couple of hours, some upper level instability will veer into northern Illinois which should help to support a few widely scattered to isolated storms.  We'll watch for some isolated heavy rain, and potentially some hail, but the greatest threat should remain west of the Rockford area. The overall severe threat is rather low, with maybe just a gusty storm or two expected. Activity should linger through about 2am before exiting the area.