New Grand Chain, Illinois Weather
New Grand Chain, Illinois — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for New Grand Chain, Pulaski County.
Full aviation weather for New Grand Chain is published on the Metropolis Municipal Airport (KM30) page, 25 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 New Grand Chain 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 New Grand Chain: Cairo Regional Airport (KCIR) 27 km · Barkley Regional Airport (KPAH) 30 km · Cape Girardeau Regional Airport (KCGI) 49 km · Mississippi County Airport (KCHQ) 55 km · Veterans Airport of Southern Illinois (KMWA) 56 km
Conditions reported at KM30 describe the airfield itself. Weather 25 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at New Grand Chain specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for New Grand Chain.
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.
Live animated radar for New Grand Chain 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 | 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 | September 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, 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 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. 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.
