New Grand Chain, Illinois Weather
New Grand Chain, Illinois — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for New Grand Chain, Pulaski County.
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About New Grand Chain, Illinois
New Grand Chain rests in a place where the Mississippi River’s broad, slow exhalations still shape the land, a low-lying realm of fertile bottoms and cypress-studded sloughs. It lies 25.9 miles west-north-west of Paducah, KY (from Paducah, KY: bearing 297°T), and is situated 17.4 miles west-north-west of Metropolis. The air here, especially after a rain, carries the damp, earthy scent of alluvial soil and the faint, sweet perfume of unseen wildflowers blooming in the ditches. Fields of corn and soybeans stretch out like rumpled green blankets, broken only by the darker, denser swathes of bottomland forest where the trees stand in patient, water-wise congregations. The sky often feels vast and open, a pale blue dome that can, in the late afternoon, turn a bruised, dramatic purple as storm clouds gather, their shadows sweeping across the landscape like slow, silent ships. The history of New Grand Chain is tied to the watery arteries that define this corner of Pulaski County, a place that has seen steamboats churn their way upriver and barges laden with goods glide silently past. The very ground beneath New Grand Chain was once a more dynamic part of the river's domain, shaped by its shifting currents and periodic floods. Its economy, like that of many settlements along these great waterways, has long been rooted in agriculture, the rich soil yielding bountiful harvests, and in the commerce that flows along the river’s surface. This is a locality that understands the enduring power of the water, a quiet presence that dictates the seasons, nourishes the land, and has always been the primary character in the unfolding story of New Grand Chain.
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| Location | New Grand Chain, Pulaski County, Illinois |
| Coordinates | 37.251996°N, 89.021181°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 62941 |
| Area Code | 618 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This New Grand Chain, Illinois Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for New Grand Chain, Illinois, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, real-time aviation weather (live METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport, with a modeled estimate shown when no station is in range), precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. 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 New Grand Chain includes coordinates 37.251996°N, 89.021181°W, situated in Pulaski County. ZIP code 62941. Telephone area code: 618. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov (NOAA), with a modeled estimate used where no nearby reporting station is available. 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.
