Easter Climate Data for Rockford

Easter Climate for Northern Illinois: Statistics for Chicago and Rockford

Rockford:
The following statistics comprises 104 years of data. Data collection for Rockford was at the Greater Rockford Airport.

Frequency distribution of high temperatures for Rockford. This dataset shows that the most frequent range of high temperatures on Easter is in the 50 to 59 degree range. Since Easter isn’t on a set day, there is no normal high temperature. The highest temperature on Easter is 84 degrees which occurred on April 12, 1925 as well as April 10^th, 1977. The lowest high temperature on Easter is 26 degrees, which happened on March 24^th, 1940 and March 29^th, 1964. Last year on March 22nd, the high temperature was 38.

Frequency distribution of low temperatures for Rockford. This dataset shows that the most frequent range of low temperatures on Easter is in the 30 to 39 degree range. Since Easter isn’t on a set day, there is no normal low temperature. The lowest temperature for Rockford on Easter is 8, which occurred on March 24^th, 1940. The highest low temperature on Easter is 60 on April 19^th, 1992. The low temperature last year was 26 degrees.

Frequency distribution of precipitation for Rockford. This dataset shows that the most frequent amount of precipitation recorded on Easter is 0.00”, which accounts for 45% of the days in the dataset. The next most frequent range is the 0.02” to 0.25” range. The highest amount of precipitation on Easter occurred on April 16^th, 2006 when 1.71” of precipitation fell. There have been two instances where over an inch of precipitation fell on Easter. Last year, 0.03 inches of precipitation fell.

Frequency distribution of snowfall for Rockford. This dataset shows that the most frequent amount of snowfall recorded on Easter is 0.0”, which accounts for 82% of the days in the dataset. The next most frequent range the 0.1” to 0.9” range. The highest amount of snowfall recorded on Easter occurred on March 29^th, 1964 when 4.8” of snow fell. Last year, there was 0.3 inches of snowfall recorded.

ADDITIONAL EASTER DAY CLIMATE DATA ( * MEANS LAST OCCURRENCE)

MAX TEMP WARMEST	MIN TEMP WARMEST	PCPN WETTEST	SNOW MOST
84 April 10, 1977 *	60 April 19, 1992	1.71 April 16, 2006	4.8 March 29, 1964
80 April 19, 1987 *	59 April 13, 1941	1.36 April 13, 1952	1.5 April 30, 1907
78 April 13,1941	58 March 27, 1910	0.92 April 22, 1984	1.0 April 8, 1928
77 March 30, 1986 *	57 April 25, 1943	0.80 April 30, 1907
75 March 26, 1989 *	55 April 17, 1927	0.70 April 17, 1938
74 April 17, 1938 *	54 April 18, 1976 *	0.68 March 31, 1929
72 April 12, 1998 *	52 April 22, 1962	0.66 April 20, 1930
70 April 19, 1992 *	51 March 30, 1986	0.60 April 13, 1941 *
69 April 1, 1956 *	50 April 20, 1919	0.58 April 19, 1992
68 March 27, 1921	49 April 12, 1998 *	0.55 April 1, 1934

MAX TEMP COLDEST	MIN TEMP COLDEST	PCPN DRIEST	SNOW LEAST
26 March 29, 1964 *	8 March 24, 1940	0.00 April 8, 2007 *	0.0 April 8, 2007 *
30 March 30, 1975	14 March 25, 1951	T April 7, 1996 *	T April 7, 1996 *
33 April 9, 1950	15 March 29, 1964	0.01 April 20, 2003 *	0.1 April 22, 1984
34 March 26, 1978 *	16 March 30, 1975	0.02 April 15, 1990 *
35 April 8, 1928 *	17 March 29, 1970	0.03 March 22, 2008 *
37 April 7, 1917	19 March 28, 1948 *	0.04 April 22, 1962 *
38 March 22, 2008 *	20 April 9, 1939	0.05 April 22, 1973
39 April 8, 2007 *	21 April 2, 1961 *	0.07 March 31, 2002 *
40 April 3, 1983 *	22 March 28, 1937	0.08 March 31, 1991 *
41 March 25, 1951	23 April 7, 1996 *	0.09 April 4, 1920

TJH and ACS 4/10/2009

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