WGN-TV Chief Meteorologist Tom Skilling and the WGN Weather Center staff provide daily coverage of weather in the Chicago area.

Double rainbow near Rockford at the periphery of Labor Day evening's cloudburst and the serious flooding it produced

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At least one of the cloudburst-generating thunderstorms, which fired repeatedly Monday (Labor Day) afternoon and early evening over the Rockford area, produced this double rainbow which, according to Theodore Juern, who shares these photos with us, had drivers on I-90 pulling to the side of the highway to observe and photograph. The storm produced some of the most severe flooding observed in recent memory over the southeast quadrant of Rockford with rainfalls estimated at 6".
-Tom Skilling, WGN-TV Chief meteorologist

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PHOTO COURTESY: Theodore Juern