Scottville, Illinois Weather
Scottville, Illinois — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Scottville, Macoupin County.
Full aviation weather for Scottville is published on the Zelmer Memorial Airpark Inc Airport (K5K1) page, 12 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. 3 airfields within reach of Scottville 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 Scottville: Jacksonville Municipal Airport (KIJX) 35 km · Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport (KSPI) 54 km
Conditions reported at K5K1 describe the airfield itself. Weather 12 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Scottville specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Scottville.
About Scottville, Illinois
Scottville breathes the wide, flat air of southern Macoupin County, a place where the land stretches out like a rumpled quilt under a sky that can shift from bruised purple at dusk to an astonishing, almost liquid blue. It lies 33.1 miles south-west of Springfield, IL (from Springfield, IL: bearing 228°T), and is situated 18.7 miles south-south-east of Jacksonville. The terrain here is a gentle, yielding country, the sort that promises good earth for planting, with fields of corn and soybeans whispering secrets in the breeze. Drainage ditches, carved with a practical hand, snake through the landscape, carrying the slow, brown water toward larger rivers, and here and there, a lone oak or a stand of sycamores breaks the horizon, their branches reaching like skeletal fingers against the vast expanse. The houses of Scottville themselves are a humble collection, paint faded by sun and time, their porches worn smooth by generations of feet. The story of Scottville is written in the soil and the memory of industry. Once, this land hummed with the promise of coal, its seams whispering of a different kind of wealth that once fueled the engines of progress, though the deep shafts are long since quieted, leaving only echoes in the local lore and perhaps a faint, lingering scent in the air after a heavy rain. Now, the economy is a quieter affair, tied to the bounty of the fertile earth, the rhythm of the agricultural seasons dictating the pulse of life. Children here grow up with the smell of freshly turned soil and the distant drone of tractors, a simple, grounded existence that feels as natural as the slow arc of the sun across the prairie sky.
Live animated radar for Scottville 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.
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| Location | Scottville, Macoupin County, Illinois |
| Coordinates | 39.480325°N, 90.104834°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 62674, 62683 |
| Area Code | 217 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Scottville, Illinois Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Scottville, 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 Scottville includes coordinates 39.480325°N, 90.104834°W, situated in Macoupin County. ZIP code 62674, 62683. 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.
