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Illinois

Storm spotter training March 18

LITCHFIELD -- The National Weather Service office in St. Louis, in coordination with the Montgomery County Emergency Management Agency, will be hosting a storm spotter training class this spring. The class will take place at 6 p.m. inside the auditorium of the Litchfield campus of Lincoln Land Community College, 1 Lincoln Land Drive. The class is free and typically lasts roughly two hours. Participants will learn about thunderstorm development, storm structure, how to identify severe weather features, how to report […]

todayFebruary 11, 2025 76

extreme heat relief rain thunderstorms July 29 2023

Illinois

Is extreme heat relief on the way?

UPDATE 4:03 p.m. CDT: The severe thunderstorm watch has extended into south-central and some parts of east-central Illinois. The watch has also been extended until 9 p.m. - JL The Heartland Newsfeed/Heartland Newsfeed Radio Network coverage area has been plagued with extreme heat this week. A heat advisory remains in effect until 9 p.m. Central tonight, but could relief be coming in before that? The National Weather Service is thinking that it is possible. At 11:25 a.m., the National Weather […]

todayJuly 29, 2023 791

heat advisory

Capital Area Region

Bi-state region again under heat advisory

Expect the remainder of your Independence Day holiday and most of this week to be hot and unbearable in the bi-state region. The National Weather Service in St. Louis has activated a Heat Advisory Sunday afternoon. It will officially be in effect as of noon Monday, July 4. High temperatures and high humidity create hazardous conditions with heat index values between 100 and 105 degrees on Monday. In addition, the heat indexes increase from 105 to 110 on Tuesday and Wednesday. […]

todayJuly 4, 2022 92

heat advisory

Capital Area Region

Bi-state region under heat advisory

The bi-state region will be under a heat advisory beginning mid-morning on Monday. Temperatures are to be in the 90s to 100s, with heat indexes in the 110s. The affected regions are in south central, southwest, and west central Illinois. Portions of northeastern Missouri, including the St. Louis metro area, are also impacted. The heat advisory will go into effect beginning at 11 a.m. Monday, June 13. It will remain in effect until 8 p.m. on Wednesday, June 15. The […]

todayJune 12, 2022 27

National

Tornado strikes northern Louisiana as storm pummels southern United States

MONROE, La. (UPI) -- Tornadoes struck northern Louisiana on Sunday afternoon, including damage to nearly two dozen homes and the airport in Monroe, as a severe storm system passed through the South. With most people kept indoors at their homes on Easter Sunday because of the pandemic coronavirus, about 95 million people may be impacted by the storm, including the threat of tornadoes, according to Rick Reichmuth, Fox News' chief meteorologist. "Big weather going on today," Reichmuth said on Fox […]

todayApril 12, 2020 18

East Central Illinois Region

NWS St. Louis to conduct storm spotting class in Litchfield

LITCHFIELD (Heartland Newsfeed) -- The National Weather Service (NWS) office in St. Louis have been conducting storm spotting classes in several locations throughout their district, and that will be no different when they return to Litchfield next month. NWS St. Louis, in partnership with Montgomery/Christian/Shelby EMA agency managers, will be holding a storm spotter class for the upcoming severe weather season at the Litchfield campus of Lincoln Land Community College, 1 Lincoln Land Dr. on Thursday, Mar. 5 from 6:30 […]

todayFebruary 15, 2020 12

Business & Lifestyle

Midwestern farmers afraid spring will bring more widespread flooding

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (UPI) -- Midwestern farmers, who endured record-breaking floods in 2019 that hindered planting and harvesting, now face the strong possibility that widespread flooding will return for the 2020 planting season. "It will probably be more of the same," said Tom Christensen, a farmer in southeastern North Dakota who grows wheat, corn and soybeans. The problem, Christensen said, is that the ground still soaked from last year's flooding and it simply can't absorb any more water. "In much of […]

todayFebruary 6, 2020 11

National

Pittsburgh breaks 130-year record for highest temperature

PITTSBURGH (UPI) -- Pittsburgh broke a 130-year record for highest temperature on record for the date on Saturday. The high temperature recorded at Pittsburgh International Airport was 70 degrees, according to WTAE in Pittsburgh. Wait. Temperatures in the 60s? In January?? In the morning??? Believe it! We'll probably topple at least a couple of record highs today. Take advantage of the warmth to bring inside anything that might get blown around tonight by the strong wind. pic.twitter.com/swMBSuGm4w — NWS Pittsburgh […]

todayJanuary 11, 2020 9

Midwestern flood losses farmers

Business & Lifestyle

Midwestern farmers devastated by massive, uninsured flood losses

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (UPI) -- Hundreds of millions of dollars of crops destroyed in this month's massive Midwestern flooding events were not insured, farmers say. And the losses could leave many without sufficient income to continue farming. "This uninsured grain issue is really starting to affect people," said Jeff Jorgenson, a western Iowa corn and soy grower whose farm flooded when the Missouri River broke over its banks March 12. "It could end a farming career," he said, his voice was […]

todayMarch 29, 2019 19

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