Slight Risk for Excessive Rainfall and Severe Thunderstorms Thursday

Additional rounds of thunderstorms are expected Thursday and Thursday night across Oklahoma and north Texas, with risks for both large hail and flash flooding. Strong winds may accompany any storms from east Texas northeast through the lower Great Lakes. 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

Slight Risk for Excessive Rainfall and Severe Thunderstorms Thursday

Observation Outage at Coles County Airport Near Mattoon