The National Weather Service is expecting severe weather throughout much of Illinois later today and early very Wednesday morning. An unseasonably warm and moist air mass for February is setting the state up for mix a nasty weather says NWS Metrologist Matt Barnes.



Barnes says the worst of the weather is expected to reach the state after midnight tonight and will stretch from the St. Louis area to north of Bloomington.

NWS Metrologist Matt Barnes says that it’s not normally this warm in February and those conditions are contributing to the threat for a rough night of weather.