In my opinion, Wednesday's weather gets a perfect 10 out of 10 on the Joey scale. Pleasant conditions stuck around, with afternoon highs peaking in the upper 50s under an abundance of sun. Better yet, Wednesday's peak wind gust was 20 mph, the lowest that Rockford has observed since March 12th.
Similar winds will be on the table today, though it does come with low chance for rain. Hit or miss showers will be possible before midday, with cloudy skies staying overhead for the afternoon.
Some won't see rain, others will, likely only picking up a hundredth of an inch or two. Despite the cloud cover, a light southeasterly wind will bring afternoon highs back into the mid 50s.
A warm front will then lift through the Stateline Thursday
night into Friday morning, bringing another chance for scattered showers
and storms. Severe weather is not a concern for Rockford at this moment in time, though a few of our locales closer to the Mississippi River have been placed under a Level 1, Marginal Risk for severe weather. Heavy downpours and hail up to 1" in diameter will be the biggest concerns with the strongest storms.
Once the warm front has lifted into Wisconsin, storm chances will significantly drop. Our focus will then turn to strong winds and the unseasonably warm air that tags along with it. We round out the work week with afternoon highs in the low 70s. In fact, Friday's forecast high of 74
° falls 5
° short of our daily record high of 79
° from 1910. Of course, we don't get that warm this early in the year unless a strong warm wind is present. That will be the case Friday and Friday night, with peak gusts reaching 40 mph.
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