Meteorologist Ed Kieser returns to Illinois airways

Meteorologist, Ed Kieser, returns to WILL radio after 16 years of retirement. He was the chief meteorologist at our station from the 1980s to the 2000s.

Longtime listeners of WILL recognize his voice from his daily weather reports and for forecasting Illinois’s tornado outbreak in 1996 in Urbana Champaign.

Kieser returns to team up with Andrew Pritchard, meteorologist at Nutrient Ag Solutions to forecast the weather for WILL radio. 

Professor in the Department of Climate, Metrology and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Steve Nesbit, Meteorologist at Nutrient Ag Solutions, Andrew Pritchard and returning meteorologist at WILL, Ed Kieser discuss weather lore and the 1996 tornado that hit Urbana Champaign.

Partial funding for Weather Realness is provided by the Backlund Charitable Trust. If you want to ask a local scientist a question on the program, please leave a voicemail at 217.333.2141 or email weatherrealness@illinois.edu.