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Snow in the Rockies; Showers and Thunderstorms Along the Gulf Coast; Potential Winter Storm for Northern Mid-Atlantic and Interior New England

A winter-like pattern will continue over much of the Lower 48 over the next few days, with snow stretching from the Rockies today into the Middle Mississippi Valley on Monday. Showers and thunderstorms will develop along the Gulf Coast and Southeast on Monday. As the storm moves northward late Monday into Tuesday, winter weather is possible from the Central Appalachians to Interior New England. Read More >

An outage of NOAA Weather Radio station KZZ-65 in Bloomington is scheduled for today, February 13th. Technicians will be relocating the equipment at the transmitter site. The outage time is expected to only be a few hours. The transmitter will remain in the same area (Nord Farms site near the I-55/ Market St. interchange in Bloomington), so no changes in service area are expected. 

During the outage, broadcasts can be obtained from nearby stations:

  • De Witt County:  WXJ-75 in Springfield (162.400 MHz) and WXJ-76 in Champaign (162.550 MHz)
  • McLean and Woodford Counties:  WXK-24 in Odell (162.450 MHz) and WXJ-71 in Peoria (162.475 MHz)
  • Tazewell County:  WXJ-71 in Peoria (162.475 MHz)

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