Chana, Illinois Weather
Chana, Illinois — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Chana, Ogle County.
Full aviation weather for Chana is published on the Rochelle Municipal Airport - Koritz Field (KRPJ) page, 15 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 Chana 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 Chana: Ogle County Airport (KC55) 16 km · Dixon Municipal Charles R. Walgreen Field (KC73) 25 km · Chicago Rockford International Airport (KRFD) 26 km · Bresson Airport (KC82) 26 km · Albertus Airport (KFEP) 42 km
Conditions reported at KRPJ describe the airfield itself. Weather 15 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Chana specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Chana.
About Chana, Illinois
Chana rests in a landscape shaped by the slow, patient work of glaciers, where the land rises and falls in a gentle swell, not dramatic, but enough to catch the light in subtle ways. It lies 21.1 miles south-south-west of Rockford, IL (from Rockford, IL: bearing 198°T), and is situated 8.7 miles west-north-west of Rochelle. The fields, a patchwork of corn and soybeans in the summer heat, stretch towards horizons that seem to breathe with the vastness of the sky, a sky that can turn a startling, bruised purple at dusk. Here, the air, especially after a rain, carries the clean, earthy scent of turned soil and the distant hum of agricultural machinery, a sound that has been the pulse of this place for generations. The buildings, mostly low-slung and practical, stand against this open expanse, their paint weathered by the prairie winds, bearing the quiet dignity of structures that have weathered many seasons. The history of Chana is tied to the rich, dark earth and the tenacious spirit of those who worked it, a lineage of farmers and families who saw potential in this fertile ground. While the railway once brought a livelier pulse to the area, its tracks now lie quiet, remnants of a busier past. Today, the local economy remains firmly rooted in agriculture, the bounty of the land providing sustenance and livelihood. There are no grand monuments or bustling marketplaces, but rather a quiet resilience, a sense of continuity that can be felt in the way neighbors still greet each other, in the enduring strength of the old grain elevators that stand as silent sentinels against the prairie sky. Chana’s character is one of understated endurance, a place where the rhythm of the seasons dictates the pace of life.
Live animated radar for Chana 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.
Source: NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East · Public domain · Auto-updates on page reload
| Location | Chana, Ogle County, Illinois |
| Coordinates | 41.980585°N, 89.219824°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 61015 |
| Area Code | 847, 224 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Chana, Illinois Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Chana, 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 Chana includes coordinates 41.980585°N, 89.219824°W, situated in Ogle County. ZIP code 61015. Telephone area code: 847, 224. 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.
