Cooksville, Illinois Weather
Cooksville, Illinois — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Cooksville, McLean County.
Full aviation weather for Cooksville is published on the Central Illinois Regional Airport at Bloomington-Normal (KBMI) page, 18 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 Cooksville 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 Cooksville: Pontiac Municipal Airport (KPNT) 43 km · Paxton Airport (K1C1) 51 km · Rantoul National Aviation Center - Frank Elliot field (KTIP) 56 km
Conditions reported at KBMI describe the airfield itself. Weather 18 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Cooksville specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Cooksville.
About Cooksville, Illinois
Cooksville rests in the broad, sweeping embrace of McLean County, a place where the land itself seems to exhale the sky. It lies 14.5 miles east of Normal, IL (from Normal, IL: bearing 82°T), and is situated 7.6 miles south-south-east of Lexington. Fields of corn and soybeans, their stalks a muted green under the vast, shifting heavens, stretch to horizons that feel both near and impossibly distant. The air here carries the clean, dry scent of tilled earth and distant woodsmoke, a testament to the agricultural heart of this region. Gentle swells in the terrain, subtle as a sleeper's breath, guide the eye across the landscape, hinting at the slow, deliberate carving of water over millennia. During a summer dusk, the light softens to a luminous gold, bathing the distant silos and farmhouses in a warm, ethereal glow, a fleeting beauty that makes the quiet stillness of Cooksville feel profound. The history of Cooksville is as deeply rooted as the prairie grass that once dominated this land. Founded by early settlers drawn to the fertile soil, it grew as a vital hub for the surrounding farms, its economy intrinsically tied to the bounty of the fields. The railroad, a lifeline in its early days, brought prosperity and connection, its ghostly imprint still felt in the quiet avenues where tracks once thrummed. Though the grand ambitions of the past may have mellowed, the spirit of resilience and self-sufficiency remains. Local life in Cooksville moves at a pace dictated by the seasons and the planting cycles, a steady, unhurried rhythm that allows for the simple pleasures: conversation on a porch swing, the shared harvest from a neighbor's garden, the quiet satisfaction of a day's honest work.
Live animated radar for Cooksville 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 | Cooksville, McLean County, Illinois |
| Coordinates | 40.54309°N, 88.716455°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 61730 |
| Area Code | 309 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Cooksville, Illinois Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Cooksville, 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 Cooksville includes coordinates 40.543090°N, 88.716455°W, situated in McLean County. ZIP code 61730. Telephone area code: 309. 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.
