Sun-filled skies greeted us once again Wednesday afternoon allowing temperatures to warm into the low to mid 40s, with Rockford's high reaching 44 degrees. Wednesday was the third day in a row where the temperature climbed to 40 degrees, or higher. And the stretch of spring-like weather is expected to continue through the rest of the week and into the weekend. And outside of a slight chance for some light rain mid-day Thursday, our precipitation chances remain fairly limited.
High pressure will hold strong over the Great Lakes Wednesday evening as cloud cover slowly increases from the west. This will turn our skies mostly cloudy with temperatures falling into the mid and upper 20s.
A quick upper-level disturbance will move through the Midwest Thursday morning bringing with it a slight chance for precipitation across northwest Illinois through early afternoon, but only around 10-20 percent. Temperatures will warm into the low 40s for the afternoon.
High pressure builds back in for the weekend which will help temperatures warm into the 50s, mid-50s potentially Saturday and Sunday as a cut-off low spins across the Gulf states. The majority of this moisture should remain south of the immediate area but could come as close to us as I-80 late Saturday night. If so, there could be a chance for some mixed precipitation or wet snow, especially to the south, through Sunday morning. The chance for that precipitation making it this far north remains fairly low, so for now the forecast will stay dry. The beginning of next week will start off mostly dry, but our pattern turns a little more active which could bring us several opportunities for precipitation by the end of next week and into the weekend.
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