temperatures

The question of when freezing temperatures will happen in Illinois depends heavily on where you live within the state.

When will Wisconsin places experience the first freeze of the Fall season? Sooner rather than later.

Are you a fan of winter? Your answer will determine how you feel about a new forecaster's outlook for next season which he says will put Illinois on 'blast'.

It's hard to imagine as the heat of summer hasn't fully receded that Wisconsin could see its first frost of the season in only a handful of weeks. Data shows on average that is very much a possibility.

It's like watching two worlds collide. A new list of the Illinois places that have the hottest average temperatures also includes an infamous place that has been declared among the most abandoned towns in America, too.

The heat is on and it will only get hotter is the most obvious summer thing you can say in Illinois, but what towns will be the hottest? There is data and science that has declared the 20 most scorching hot cities in the Land of Lincoln.

We are approaching the time of year when it's going to start getting seriously hot. What many don't understand about weather in Illinois is that heat is based not just on temperature, but also humidity. Now, you can see the 30 Illinois places that are about to be seriously dripping wet with sweat more than any others.

I can already hear the naysayers laughing at the news that Missouri's summer will be hot. Of course it will be hot they'll say and they're not wrong. However, there's a difference between Missouri's normally hot summers and record heat and Farmer's Almanac says records may be broken.

You can expect a radical change in the weather in Illinois near the start of the week as a fast-moving storm system will cause temperatures in the state to plummet 50 degrees (or more) in only hours.

There's good news and bad news about what many forecasters consider to be a dangerous storm system that will impact Missouri early next week. It is expected to crash Missouri temperatures and cause them to freefall more than 50 degrees in just hours, but that drop won't last long.