High Pressure Keeping Things Dry into Sunday!

Taking a look at our Mercyhealth skycam over Rochelle, we have mostly cloudy skies for now! Decreasing clouds are expected later on this afternoon as a high pressure system draws closer to the region.





This high pressure system, which is keeping things quiet from North Dakota, all the way down into Texas, will be what drives our weather the next few days. It will keep things quiet and dry, and also bring more sunshine to the Stateline.

With that said, that will help alleviate some of the flooding that is going on across the Stateline. Rivers have been slowly recede now that the weather has been mostly dry as of recent.  The Pecatonica River in Freeport has already dropped over a foot since cresting this past weekend. Almost down a foot also along the Pecatonica in Shirland.

However, the Rock River in Latham Park is taking it's sweet old time to recede. Slowly making progress as we head into next week!

Both the Rock River in Rockton and the Pecatonica in Freeport are now at moderate flood levels and are set to drop to minor category by the beginning of next week. The Rock River in Latham Park however, will only drop one category, down to moderate during the same time frame.