High as a Mountain and Deep as a River

By Margaret Lyons in News on Sep 5, 2008 5:11PM

Yesterday's serious showers turned out to be the area's heaviest official rainfall in five years. Yowza! Areas of the city were hit with more than 4 inches of rain, which obliterates 2003's 3.2 inches on April 30/May 1,and Peoria, Rockford and Moline all saw record-level rainfall.

It looks like the wet weather may be behind us, though. Forecasts for this weekend and into early next week are predicting cloudy days but not a lot of precipitation, with highs in the low 70s and and nighttime lows in the 50s. [Trib, WGN, Accuweather, NWS]