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Solar Eclipse Viewing Hampered by Cloud Cover In Central Illinois

Some central Illinoisans struggled to cleanly catch the solar eclipse Monday afternoon.
 
Projected around 95% totality locally, the National Weather Service indicates the viewing was difficult in some areas. Chris Geelhart with the National Weather Service in Lincoln notes there were some areas that saw decreased cloud cover for a portion of the viewing.
 
 
The morning provided some scattered showers but Geelhart says those moved off and provided a filtered viewing.
 
 
Temperatures across the area also dropped. Geelhart says they saw temperature drops within about five-degrees across most of the of central Illinois.
 
 
Some radio signals were adversely affected by the solar eclipse, including WHOW THE BIG 1520 AM.  The signal on the east side of Springfield, was cluttered by interference from another station on 1520 coming from Sikeston, Missouri, playing classic country music.  Here's a little of what it sounded like at 1:20 Monday afternoon...a Dish Network ad is what was on WHOW at the time:
 
 
National Weather Service officials note in April of 2024, another eclipse is predicted to track across the US again.

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