Severe Thunderstorms, Heavy Rainfall and Dangerous Heat

Severe thunderstorms are expected today and Friday from the upper Midwest, central Great Lakes into the Ohio and mid-Mississippi Valley's. In addition, heavy rainfall threat increases on Friday across the Ohio Valley. Meanwhile, early summer-like heat wave across portions of southern Texas with new daily records are forecast today and through the weekend; The heat spreads across the Gulf States. Read More >

A rare, near full solar eclipse will occur across the entire region in the early afternoon of August 21, 2017. A full eclipse axis centerline will occur from St Joseph, Missouri to just south of Columbia to south of St Louis in a 60 plus mile swath. Here's some specifics for our forecast area of Eastern Iowa, Northwest Illinois and extreme Northeastern Missouri.

The eclipse will start around 11:45 AM
The max near full eclipse will occur between 1:10-1:16 PM
The eclipse will end around 2:35 PM
The maximum coverage of the eclipse will range from about 88% in Freeport, Illinois to roughly 97% at Memphis, Missouri with the region around the I-80 corridor experiencing a max coverage near 91%.

Next Monday's broad forecast for our area: Cloud Coverage...Partly Cloudy; Precipitation Chances...20 to 40%; Confidence...LOW.

CAUTION: This forecast will improve between this Friday and next Monday.

For more specific information on this event click on the image below from NASA...

Here's an additional link below with more useful information from the NWS office in Columbia, South Carolina.

http://www.weather.gov/cae/eclipse

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Near Full Solar Eclipse August 21, 2017