Bay View Garden, Illinois Weather
Bay View Garden, Illinois — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Bay View Garden, Woodford County.
Full aviation weather for Bay View Garden is published on the Mount Hawley Auxiliary Airport (K3MY) page, 8 km away. It carries the current METAR decoded into plain language — surface wind, visibility, cloud layers and ceiling, temperature and dewpoint, and altimeter setting — alongside the raw observation as transmitted. 6 airfields within reach of Bay View Garden have their own pages, listed below.
The Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF) is shown across its full validity period, with each change group broken out so you can see when conditions are expected to shift. Flight category is derived automatically — VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR — from reported ceiling and visibility, with runway details and field elevation alongside. Observations update roughly hourly and forecasts several times a day.
Other airports near Bay View Garden: General Wayne A. Downing Peoria International Airport (KPIA) 22 km · Marshall County Airport (KC75) 26 km · Pekin Municipal Airport (KC15) 38 km · Ingersoll Airport (KCTK) 54 km · Kewanee Municipal Airport (KEZI) 58 km
Conditions reported at K3MY describe the airfield itself. Weather 8 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Bay View Garden specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Bay View Garden.
About Bay View Garden, Illinois
Bay View Garden unfolds across a gentle swell of Illinois prairie, where fields of corn and soybeans stretch to a horizon that seems to hold the very breath of the sky. It lies 8.7 miles north-north-east of Peoria, IL (from Peoria, IL: bearing 24°T), and is situated 9.4 miles north-west of Washington. The land here is a canvas of soft greens and muted golds, broken only by the occasional darker stripe of a tree line or the glint of a distant farmhouse roof. Even in the height of summer, there's a quiet coolness that settles in the air, a promise of relief that carries on the breeze, and the late afternoon light often paints the western sky in hues of rose and lavender, a spectacle that has likely graced these same fields for centuries. The character of Bay View Garden is one of quiet endurance, a place where the vastness of the prairie lends a certain stoicism to its inhabitants, a people who understand the cycles of planting and harvest, of sun and rain, and find their own rhythm in the dependable pulse of the land. The history of Bay View Garden is as much about the soil as it is about the people who have worked it. This region, once a vast sea of native grasses, was settled by those who saw the fertility in its rich, dark earth, and the local economy has long been tethered to the bounty of agriculture, with grain elevators standing as silent sentinels to the ongoing harvest. While no grand historical monuments mark its past, the stories are whispered in the creak of old barn doors and the enduring scent of freshly tilled fields after a spring rain. The distinctive character of Bay View Garden lies in its unpretentious beauty, a place where the simple act of watching the sun dip below the wide-open prairie is a profound experience, and where the quiet hum of tractors in the distance is the soundtrack to a life lived close to the earth.
Live animated radar for Bay View Garden and surroundings — RainViewer.
NOAA GOES-16 GEOCOLOR — live animated loop updated every 10 minutes. Shows cloud cover, storm systems and weather patterns across the continental US.
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| Location | Bay View Garden, Woodford County, Illinois |
| Coordinates | 40.808926°N, 89.520649°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 61611, 61604 |
| Area Code | 815 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Bay View Garden, Illinois Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Bay View Garden, Illinois, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Aviation weather — live METAR observations and TAF forecasts — is published separately on the pages for the nearest reporting airports, linked from the aviation section above. Additional sections may include tide predictions, wave height, wave direction and sea-surface temperature, a barometric pressure trend, and a solunar-based fishing forecast with a fishing-conditions rating for coastal localities, and soil temperature, crop weather and live USGS river gauge data for agricultural areas near a monitored waterway. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Bay View Garden includes coordinates 40.808926°N, 89.520649°W, situated in Woodford County. ZIP code 61611, 61604. Telephone area code: 815. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. River and stream data is sourced from the USGS National Water Information System. Tide predictions are sourced from NOAA CO-OPS; marine and solunar data are modeled from Open-Meteo and public sunrise/moon calculations and should be treated as a general guide alongside on-the-water conditions. Radar is provided by RainViewer. Satellite imagery is sourced from NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East and is public domain.
