A look into December...

 

 

 

 

As the fall season comes to a close, Illinois has a mean temperature of 52.7 degrees, which ranks 25th coldest fall. Total precipitation for the fall season so far is at 5.86", with only three days left it seems that this will be the official total. Looking ahead into the winter season, most of the United States will see temperatures above normal as the upper level atmospheric blocking over the north Pacific has been persistent for the past few weeks. This upper level blocking is contributing to the abnormally high temperatures as well as the lack of any significant storms in the midwest. Looking ahead in the season, we can see that the first third of the season will be lacking any significant snowfall which is due to the north Pacific blocking.  

 

 

John Barmann

Meteorologist

 

Warmest Thanksgiving in 40 years...

 

Thanksgiving day will be one of the warmest days of the month with high temperatures expected to reach 63 degrees for the Chicagoland area! If the forecast holds out; this Thanksgiving will rank second highest for maximum temperature in the Rockford region. For Chicago region the month of November has seen a mean temperature of 42 degrees. This mean temperature ranks as the 52nd highest mean temp with records  taken from National Climate Data Center (NCDC: 1865-2011). Snowfall totals for the state of Illinois is still at 0.0" which is far below the normal snowfall to this date by more than an inch! Although no snow has fallen so far, the season is still young and showing some promise.

John Barmann
Meteorologist