Rochelle, IL Weather

Ogle County11:32 PM CDT41.92°N, 89.07°WElevation 823 ft

Current conditions

Partly Cloudy
54°
Partly Cloudy
Feels like 54°
High 72° Saturday·Low 48° tonight
WindSE 5 mph
Humidity70%
Dew point45°
Cloud cover30%
Sunrise7:18 AM
Sunset6:04 PM

Forecast for this hour (no station report in the last two hours)

Forecast

10-day
  • Tonight

    Partly cloudy. Low around 48, with temperatures rising to around 50 overnight. Southeast wind around 5 mph.

  • Saturday

    Partly sunny, with a high near 72. South southeast wind 5 to 10 mph.

  • Saturday Night

    Partly cloudy, with a low around 50. South southeast wind 0 to 10 mph.

National Weather Service forecast updated 11 hrs ago.

  1. Now Partly Cloudy 54°
  2. Sat12 AM Partly Cloudy 53°
  3. 1 AM Mostly Clear 52°
  4. 2 AM Partly Cloudy 52°
  5. 3 AM Mostly Clear 51°
  6. 4 AM Partly Cloudy 50°
  7. 5 AM Partly Cloudy 50°
  8. 6 AM Mostly Sunny 49°
  9. 7 AM Partly Sunny 48°
  10. 8 AM Partly Sunny 50°
  11. 9 AM Partly Sunny 55°
  12. 10 AM Partly Sunny 60°
  13. 11 AM Partly Sunny 64°
  14. 12 PM Mostly Cloudy 68°
  15. 1 PM Partly Sunny 70°
  16. 2 PM Partly Sunny 72°
  17. 3 PM Partly Sunny 72°
  18. 4 PM Mostly Cloudy 72°
  19. 5 PM Mostly Cloudy 71°
  20. 6 PM Mostly Cloudy 67°
  21. 7 PM Partly Cloudy 63°
  22. 8 PM Mostly Clear 60°
  23. 9 PM Partly Cloudy 58°
  24. 10 PM Partly Cloudy 57°

Daily forecast

Details
  1. TodayOct 23 Sunny Sunny48°73°
  2. SatOct 24 Partly Sunny Partly Sunny50°72°
  3. SunOct 25 Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny49°74°
  4. MonOct 26 Mostly Cloudy Mostly Cloudy46°69°
  5. TueOct 27 Mostly Cloudy Mostly Cloudy47°66°
  6. WedOct 28 Partly Sunny Partly Sunny19%48°70°
  7. ThuOct 29 Slight Chance Rain Showers Slight Chance Rain Showers27%44°68°

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Air quality

56
Moderate
Fine particles (PM2.5)

Acceptable. Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting prolonged outdoor exertion.

Forecast

  • FriModerate
  • SatModerate
  • SunModerate

Rockford, IL reporting area · 1 hr ago. Data from AirNow (EPA and its state, local and tribal partners); preliminary and subject to change.

Sun & moon

Sunrise 7:18 AM
Sunset 6:04 PM
Daylight 10 h 45 min (−2 min 39 s tomorrow)
Waxing Gibbous · 95% lit
Moonrise 4:33 PM Moonset 4:25 AM
Full moon Oct 26 New moon Nov 9

Almanac

Monthly
Normal high / low59° / 39°
Record high83° (1963)
Record low20° (1981)
Wettest1.71 in (2010)
Yesterday74° / 41°
Month to date1.92 in (normal 1.88 in)

Rockford Area, records since 1893. Normals 1991–2020. Data from NOAA's Regional Climate Centers (ACIS).

Nearby

Forecasters' discussion

From the National Weather Service office in LOT, issued 5 hrs ago

Key Messages

- Precipitation free, unseasonably warm weather will continue through this weekend, with temperatures continuing to generally run above average through next week.

- Chances for any meaningful rainfall are low through next workweek.

Discussion

Issued at 150 PM CDT Fri Oct 23 2026

Tonight through Sunday:

As of this writing, what had been a bank of extensive fog and very low clouds across Chicago's far northern suburbs this morning has finally contracted to a remaining patch near Winthrop Harbor, IL. With lake enhanced moisture evident in the Waukegan and southeast WI dew point obs, wouldn't be surprised if patchy fog sneaks back into northeastern Lake County this evening from continued light to moderate southeasterly boundary layer flow.

Another calm night is in store tonight, with the main change happening aloft in terms of strengthening southerly flow just above the nocturnal inversion. Over the southeast half or third of the area (I-88 corridor in interior Chicago metro and points southeast), flow aloft should be sufficiently weak to enable patchy shallow ground fog development. Can't completely rule out very localized dense fog, but the setup isn't nearly as favorable as this (Friday) morning. High clouds will filter in from the northwest overnight into Saturday morning, keeping overnight lows a bit milder across interior northern Illinois in particular.

On Saturday, high temperatures will likely be close to a carbon copy of today (Friday), in the lower to mid 70s. Illinois side lake cooling will be confined to the immediate shoreline during the afternoon as southerly winds back to southeast with lake influence. Following a calm and cool (relative to Saturday afternoon's warmth) Saturday night, Sunday will likely be the warmest day of this stretch unless mid and high cloud cover limits high temps a bit.

Sunday Night through Friday:

Aviation

Issued at 631 PM CDT Fri Oct 23 2026

No significant aviation forecast concerns through the period.

Surface high pressure ridge continues to move off to the east of the region early this evening, while a slow-moving cold front remains well to our west across the Plains. Locally, this will maintain a south-southeast surface wind regime tonight through Saturday. Afternoon lake breeze had pushed through ORD/MDW and GYY earlier but is now decaying after sunset. Light southeast winds overnight will turn more south or south- southeast near 10 kts on Saturday before becoming light southeast again with sunset.

VFR conditions will prevail, with only some increasing mid and high level cloud cover tonight/Saturday (bases above 15 kft).

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