Mound Station, Illinois Weather
Mound Station, Illinois — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Mound Station, Brown County.
Full aviation weather for Mound Station is published on the Mount Sterling Municipal Airport (KI63) page, 6 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 Mound Station 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 Mound Station: Quincy Regional Airport Baldwin Field (KUIN) 28 km · Greater Beardstown Airport (KK06) 40 km · Pittsfield Penstone Municipal Airport (KPPQ) 42 km · Hannibal Regional Airport (KHAE) 58 km · Jacksonville Municipal Airport (KIJX) 60 km
Conditions reported at KI63 describe the airfield itself. Weather 6 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Mound Station specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Mound Station.
About Mound Station, Illinois
Mound Station lies cradled by the rolling terrain of western Illinois, a place where the land itself seems to breathe with a quiet, ancient rhythm. It lies 28.8 miles east of Quincy, IL (from Quincy, IL: bearing 80°T), and is situated 6.0 miles west-north-west of Mount Sterling. The fields, a patchwork of green and gold depending on the season, stretch towards horizons softened by the hazy, humid air that often hangs in the summer months. Here, the Mississippi River’s influence is felt not by sight, but by the subtle, fertile richness of the soil and the slow, steady murmur of unseen creeks that feed into its mighty flow. The sky above Mound Station is a vast, ever-changing canvas, particularly at dusk when the setting sun bleeds across the western expanse, casting long, gentle shadows that paint the landscape with strokes of amber and rose. The history of Mound Station is deeply entwined with the fertile earth that surrounds it, a legacy of agricultural endeavor stretching back through generations. Its economy has long been rooted in the bounty of the land, with farming remaining a cornerstone, its fields yielding crops that have sustained families and communities. The whispers of the past are carried on the wind that sweeps across the open country, hinting at the lives lived and the hard work that shaped this place. Though not a place of grand monuments, Mound Station carries a distinctive character, a quiet resilience forged in the cycles of nature and the enduring spirit of its people, a spirit as steady as the flow of the great river that shapes the region.
Live animated radar for Mound Station 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 | Mound Station, Brown County, Illinois |
| Coordinates | 40.0066°N, 90.8737°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 62375 |
| Area Code | 217 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Mound Station, Illinois Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Mound Station, 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 Mound Station includes coordinates 40.006600°N, 90.873700°W, situated in Brown County. ZIP code 62375. 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.
