Now, Central Illinois's most accurate forecast with meteorologist Seth Bonoff,
well, you really could not have run up a better
day as far as the weather was concerned.
Sunshine from beginning to end,
nice temperatures throughout, enough of a breeze to kind of
just make things feel comfortable.
And we're not seeing too much going wrong out there
in Effingham.
You see the sun up there,
sunset tonight at 7:59. I think we do it again
tomorrow nights and after that
8:00 sunsets and later for quite some time.
So getting close to that kind of summer feel to
things here,
we look at our satellite picture,
we are looking at clear as can be and we
even take a look at the broad picture here.
We don't see a whole lot of cloud cover anywhere
over the state of Illinois,
which is going to be very helpful because those Northern
Lights you saw last night,
you might be able to see them again tonight if
a few things play out a certain way.
We'll talk about that in just a moment.
Right now it's 74 in Champaign,
70 in Watseka, and in Jacksonville it is about
75° and there's that wind right now somewhere between about
10 and 20 miles an hour.
Normally people kind of get annoyed by the wind,
but I kind of. I thought it was a nice
way to kind of cool off just a little bit
today.
Let's talk about those Northern Lights,
because that was a big story last night.
Here's just a few of the pictures that we got.
I've been showing this one a lot lately,
not just because it's my brother who sent it in,
but because it's an actual very stunning picture.
You almost got like white colors across the bottom making
its way up there into the pinks.
That was an awesome shot from Diedrich.
There was some clouds in the forecast last night,
but honestly, that may have made the Northern Lights actually
look even cooler the way the lights limited off them.
That's from Bob and Tuscola and then Ginger and Nathan
didn't.
This was out of Atwood.
This was really cool because you got the Big Dipper
in the shot too.
So get the Big Dipper in front of the Northern
Lights.
That's a pretty cool combination there.
Now as we talk about tonight's,
there's a couple differences with tonight's chance versus last night's
chance.
Last night we had AG5 Storm basically as strong as
you can get tonight,
kind of only looking at that G3.
So it's going to be weaker,
but that's still a strong enough storm for us to
actually be able to see the Northern Lights at least
as far South as Southern Illinois.
We're kind of closer to this green last night.
Now we're just kind of in the blue.
You might be able to see down the horizon,
so it will probably be there.
It just won't be quite as vibrant,
won't be quite as visible.
But go out there, give it a shot tonight because
the sky cover is not going to be a problem
this time.
You're going to have nice clear skies,
still going to be a little chilly,
temperatures into the upper 40s,
which would be a great night to take advantage.
Look up there to the north,
away from those city lights and you shouldn't have too
many issues at all.
Tomorrow. Mother's Day forecast looking good,
but about 10° warmer than today.
We're going for about the low to mid 80s.
Eighty 3 for Champaign, 82 in Clinton Bloomington,
81° to the West, 82 in Springfield,
Jacksonville, Carlinville, coming in at
81, 1° into the southeast,
80 in Effingham, Newton and Greenup.
So it'll be a warm one tomorrow and expecting any
rain though until we get to Monday and Tuesday.
Then we start to see some widespread showers into the
picture.
Could probably be some Thunder within some of these showers,
but not anything we're too overly worried about.
Rain chances likely spilling over into Tuesday as well.
We'll see chances Monday and Tuesday,
then again Thursday and Friday.
What that's going to do is going to bring us
maybe one to two inches of rain.
So maybe quite a bit of rain in the forecast
here over the next seven days,
but get out there enjoying Mother's Day today,
tomorrow, outdoor plans are a green light for sure.
Rain comes in Monday, Tuesday and then again Thursday,
Friday. What's been really nice is we've been talking about
the last couple of nights here is that the forecast
held up good enough to see the Northern Lights last
night. It was great for graduation today and it's probably
going to be fantastic for Mother's Day tomorrow.
So I couldn't ask for a better three day stretch
especially I just timing wise,
it was perfect for the big plans this weekend.
Yeah, absolutely. And I love that you kind of showed
those pictures of the Northern Lights because guess what we're
going to do?
We're going to do some more.
We're going to look at some more.
We're going to look at some more of them.
So people they sent them in for like our bright
spot of course,
and these are some of them and I didn't get
a chance to see it,
but looking at these pictures,
they are amazing, great. And this is like the first
ever like literal bright spot that we've had.
These things were very bright out there.
I know it's it comes out a lot better on
camera than what it does to your eye,
but some of these displays were just awesome and we
typically don't get to see them this far South and
they'll be able to see it back-to-back nights.
That's really cool. If you missed out tonight,
maybe we can hop out back and see if what
we can see here tonight.
But maybe not going to be quite as vibrant.
But hey, last night was an awesome night and maybe
we're going to run it back here again tonight.
Love to see whatever photos people come up with tonight.
Hopefully we can get some even better ones than last
night.
Even though it's going to be pretty hard to do.
I hope so. I want to see us a little
glimpse that's a little glimpse of and I'll be OK.
Just to say you were able to do it.
What? Literally just to be literally once would be great.
All right. So we'll be right back with your national
news after this.