Their verdict: mostly sunny, and a high near 90 degrees.
That's good news for local residents, and for the hundreds of thousands of visitors who are expected to flock to western Kentucky and southern Illinois along the narrow band of totality.
Meteorologists say a chance for showers wraps up on Saturday night, leaving Sunday mostly sunny for early-arriving visitors to scout out their skywatching vantage points.
The complete National Weather Service outlook is linked below.
On the Net:
Paducah Weather Service webpage
