Falling temperaures on Wednesday. Snow falling on Thursday! Most Rockfordians woke up to a dusting to several inches of snowfall this morning! Some convective snow came in around 7am bringing down an inch on my front yard...and more in some places! Our normal high temperature for today is 64°. Today was anything but normal.So, how rare is October snow here in Rockford? Looking back at over a hundred years of data, our earliest snowfall came on October 3rd, 1951 when flurries flew over the Forest City. The record earliest accumulating snowfall happened on October 12, 1909.
If we would have gotten a little more snow recorded at the airport today, we would have tied a new record for the earliest measureable snowfall for Rockford.While a few flurries are possible tonight and early Friday, I don't think we'll get anything like today's snow for quite a while. In fact, our weather pattern turns rainy and stormy next week. Not good news for area farmers who need dry weather to complete this year's harvest. -ERIC
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