Regional Outbreaks of Severe Weather Through Early Next Week; Early Season Heat Wave across the South

Active spring pattern across the center of our nation with several episodes of severe weather and heavy rainfall expected into next week. The potential for very large hail, long track tornadoes, severe wind gusts, frequent cloud to ground lightning strikes and flash flooding are in the outlook. Furthermore, dangerous early season heat wave continues for the Gulf Coast states into early next week. Read More >

The Automated Surface Observing System that serves the Coles County Airport near Mattoon (station KMTO) will be impacted by airport maintenance being conducted by the Federal Aviation Administration. During this time, only the altimeter (barometric pressure) will be available to users. The outage is expected to last through at least August 6th.

This will impact the following products:

Hourly weather observation displayed on forecast pages and broadcast on NOAA Weather Radio.
Daily Climate Report
Preliminary Monthly Climate Data
The July Monthly Weather Summary will be missing the last couple days of the month, and the August summary will miss the first several days of that month

Nearby observation sites that can be used:

ILX RSS Feed

Regional Outbreaks of Severe Weather Through Early Next Week; Early Season Heat Wave across the South

Observation Outage at Coles County Airport Near Mattoon