After the passage of Thanksgiving, it's officially "Christmas season" as the year begins to wrap up and with it so are the daily temperatures. We seen this Thanksgiving be the coldest on record since 2014 with a high of only 29 degrees yesterday. Expect much of this to continue through this week and as we approach next weekend as cold and dry air continued to be funneled in from Canada!
Like previously mentioned, we were not able to crack the 30-degree mark here in Rockford but areas further south were able to! Many people's Thanksgivings were cold and windy which I'm sure made all the Thanksgiving football games even more interesting!
Over the next few days temperatures won't come close to the 30-degree mark as very cold air will be pushed in from Canada behind a low-pressure system. Temperatures into the overnight hours will be very cold as well as those will drop into the low teens. The good news though is that sunshine will be more plentiful than the last week as very dry air will allow for less cloud cover.
During this time, wind gusts will be approaching 25 to even 30 miles per hour today and tomorrow as well. With such cold temperatures and strong northerly winds this will plummet our wind chill as many locations will be approaching 0-degree wind chills and even below 0 wind chills Friday night.
Approaching next week though consistent upper-level winds will keep us a very similar pattern as we'll be right on the cusp of warmer temperatures thought the week. By Wednesday we may see temperatures climb back above freezing but once again after shifting upper-level winds will drop us back into the 20's as we approach next weekend.
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