Blue Mound, Illinois Weather
Blue Mound, Illinois — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery for Blue Mound, Macon County.
Full aviation weather for Blue Mound is published on the Taylorville Municipal Airport (KTAZ) page, 26 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. 4 airfields within reach of Blue Mound 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 Blue Mound: Decatur Airport (KDEC) 26 km · Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport (KSPI) 50 km · Logan County Airport (KAAA) 54 km
Conditions reported at KTAZ describe the airfield itself. Weather 26 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Blue Mound specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
About Blue Mound, Illinois
Blue Mound rises from the Illinois prairie, a gentle swell of land against the immense, ever-shifting canvas of the sky. It lies 13.1 miles south-west of Decatur, IL (from Decatur, IL: bearing 223°T), and is situated 7.7 miles north-west of Moweaqua. The fields surrounding it, a patchwork of emerald and gold depending on the season, stretch out like an unfurled bolt of silk, broken only by the occasional stand of mature oak or the silver thread of a distant creek. Here, the air carries the clean scent of turned earth and the sweet perfume of ripening corn, a fragrance that settles into the lungs and speaks of fertile ground. The light, especially in the late afternoon, possesses a particular softness, bathing the landscape in a warm, honeyed glow that seems to linger on the horizon long after the sun has dipped below the rim of the world. The history of Blue Mound is deeply entwined with the agricultural bounty of this region, a place where generations have coaxed sustenance from the rich soil. Its economy, once anchored by the steadfast labor of farming, continues to draw strength from the land, even as diversification has brought new threads to its economic tapestry. There is a quiet resilience here, a sense of enduring purpose that echoes through the small clusters of homes and the weathered barns standing sentinel against the wind. The very character of Blue Mound seems to be shaped by the vast, open skies and the unhurried rhythm of the seasons, a place where the passage of time is measured not by the ticking of clocks, but by the slow bloom and eventual harvest of the earth.
Live animated radar for Blue Mound 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 | Blue Mound, Macon County, Illinois |
| Coordinates | 39.701152°N, 89.123136°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 62513 |
| Area Code | 217 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Blue Mound, Illinois Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Blue Mound, 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 Blue Mound includes coordinates 39.701152°N, 89.123136°W, situated in Macon County. ZIP code 62513. Telephone area code: 217. 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.
