Winter Weather in Southern Cook County, Illinois

Mainly freezing rain fell across east central Illinois during the morning of January 1st producing a widespread area of one quarter inch or more of ice accumulation south of Interstate 80. Light freezing rain fell across much of northern Illinois during the late morning into the early afternoon, producing a light glaze of ice with accumulations up to one tenth of an inch. There was a brief lull in the precipitation in the early to mid afternoon and then a band of snow moved across the area, producing snowfall amounts of 1 to 2 inches. A wintry mix continued into the early evening across parts of east central Illinois.

Several trees and power lines were brought down by the ice in Ford and Livingston counties with power outages reported. At least a quarter inch of ice was reported 3 miles north of Crescent City and 7 miles north of Watseka, both in Iroquois County. Ice was measured at 0.37 inches 2 miles north of Carbon Hill in Grundy County and measured at 0.28 inches 3 miles west of Irwin in Kankakee County.