Heres how Mondays solar eclipse impacted Chicagos weather NBC Chicago [Video]

Monday’s solar eclipse may not have hit totality in the Chicago area, but it certainly caused impacts to the region’s weather.

Fortunately for area residents, the National Weather Service was able to illustrate those changes via their social media accounts.

During the eclipse, the coverage of the sun helped lower the temperature in the Romeoville area by at least four degrees, according to officials.

While the eclipse didn’t hit totality, it still resulted in 94% of the sun being covered by the moon, which caused conditions to darken considerably and for a myriad of other effects.

Watch as NBC 5 Meteorologist Pete Sack is brought to tears while watching the 2024 solar eclipse in the path of totality.

The temperature wasn’t the only thing that changed, either. According to NWS officials, it had a noticeable impact on the “ground clutter” picked up by the NWS radar:

According to officials, the …