That holiday party you are heading to on Saturday night might be a little icy as our next storm system approaches. A much warmer airmass is getting set to move in during the daytime hours on Saturday. During that timeframe, the model data wants to push our highs into the upper 30s. Typically the models struggle with predicting temperatures when there is a lot of snowpack on the ground like there is in the present time. I don't believe we will make it past the freezing mark on Saturday.
What makes this problematic is that some precipitation may be triggered by Saturday night. With much warmer temperatures aloft the precipitation is going to be in the liquid form as it falls from the cloud base. Around here there is still going to be a very shallow layer of air with temperatures below the freezing mark. This layer won't be thick enough to allow sufficient time for the rain to change over into snow. It will probably just freeze on contact with surfaces like roadways, sidewalks, and power lines. The icy accumulations don't appear major at this point, but it will be something to keep a close eye on. Thankfully, by Sunday temperatures should warm up well above the freezing mark leaving us with plain old rain for the second half of the weekend. -ADAM
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what was last winters total snowfall in inches?
2007/2008 totaled 72.9" of snow in Rockford.
7.8" of that occurred in November and March, meaning the "meteorological winter" of December-February recorded 65.1" of snow.
Hope this helps!
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