Observation Outage at Coles County Airport Near Mattoon

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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:

Decatur Airport
Willard Airport south of Champaign
Edgar County Airport north of Paris
Effingham County Memorial Airport

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