Edwards, Illinois Weather
Edwards, Illinois — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Edwards, Peoria County.
Full aviation weather for Edwards is published on the General Wayne A. Downing Peoria International Airport (KPIA) page, 10 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 Edwards 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 Edwards: Mount Hawley Auxiliary Airport (K3MY) 12 km · Pekin Municipal Airport (KC15) 29 km · Ingersoll Airport (KCTK) 34 km · Marshall County Airport (KC75) 43 km · Kewanee Municipal Airport (KEZI) 54 km
Conditions reported at KPIA describe the airfield itself. Weather 10 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Edwards specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Edwards.
About Edwards, Illinois
Edwards unfolds across a gentle swell of prairie land, where the horizon stretches wide and the sky feels as if it’s a vast, ever-present canopy. It lies 8.9 miles west-north-west of Peoria, IL (from Peoria, IL: bearing 294°T), and is situated 8.2 miles north-west of Bartonville. The character of this place is etched in the steady, sun-drenched fields of corn and soybeans that ripple like green and gold oceans under the persistent Illinois breeze. Farmhouses, stoic and weathered, punctuate the landscape, their silos standing as silent sentinels against the immense blue. The air here, especially in the late afternoon, carries a dry, earthy scent, tinged with the faint sweetness of ripening crops, a subtle perfume that speaks of the soil’s generosity. The history of Edwards is tied to the deep, rich agricultural soil that has sustained it for generations, a legacy of hardworking families who tilled this land into a productive heartland. While not a bustling metropolis, its local economy thrives on the bounty of the surrounding farms, a quiet testament to the enduring strength of rural enterprise. The very rhythm of life in Edwards is set by the seasons, by the planting and harvesting, a dependable pulse that has beat through the years. It’s a place where the past is not a distant memory but a living presence, woven into the fabric of everyday existence, a quiet continuation of the stories told on these very fields.
Live animated radar for Edwards 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 | Edwards, Peoria County, Illinois |
| Coordinates | 40.74587°N, 89.74427°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 61528 |
| Area Code | 815 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Edwards, Illinois Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Edwards, 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 Edwards includes coordinates 40.745870°N, 89.744270°W, situated in Peoria County. ZIP code 61528. 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.
