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Heavy Rain in the Southern Appalachians; Fire Weather and Heat in the West; Monitoring Tropical Storm Erin

Heavy to excessive rainfall over the southern Appalachians may bring areas of flooding today. Gusty winds and low relative humidity will bring critical fire weather conditions to parts of the Great Basin and northern Rockies today and Thursday. Hot to extremely hot temperatures are in place through today across parts of the western U.S. Read More >

 Winter 2018-2019 Events

  •  March 17, 2019: Narrow stripe of heavy snow overnight that melted that day
  •  January 2019: Fourth snowiest January on record for Rockford, IL
  •  January 30-31, 2019: Record to near-record cold temperatures across northern Illinois, with Rockford reaching all-time record low
  •  January 28, 2019: Heavy snowfall across northern Illinois and northwest Indiana, making for messy Monday morning commute
  •  January 18-21, 2019: Widespread snow brings 6+" to northern Illinois followed by heavy lake effect snow into northwest Indiana