Shirley, Illinois Weather
Shirley, Illinois — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Shirley, Jefferson County.
Full aviation weather for Shirley is published on the Mount Vernon Outland Airport (KMVN) page, 5 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 Shirley 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 Shirley: Benton Municipal Airport (KH96) 32 km · Centralia Municipal Airport (KENL) 34 km · Fairfield Municipal Airport (KFWC) 38 km · Salem–Leckrone Airport (KSLO) 41 km · Flora Municipal Airport (KFOA) 54 km
Conditions reported at KMVN describe the airfield itself. Weather 5 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Shirley specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Shirley.
About Shirley, Illinois
Shirley rests in a broad, shallow valley where the land begins its gentle, almost imperceptible rise toward the rolling hills that fringe the horizon. It lies 54.9 miles west-north-west of Posey, IN (from Posey, IN: bearing 291°T), and is situated 4.2 miles east-south-east of Mount Vernon. Thick stands of oak and hickory, their leaves a deep, dusty green in the summer heat, march across the landscape, broken only by the checkerboard of cultivated fields where corn and soybeans stretch out in vast, sun-drenched expanses. The air here, especially in the late afternoon, carries the sweet, earthy scent of drying hay and the distant hum of cicadas, a sound that seems to emanate from the very sun-baked soil. Occasional farmsteads, their white silos gleaming like beacons against the verdant backdrop, dot the countryside, each a small, self-contained world. The history of Shirley is etched not in grand monuments, but in the quiet persistence of agriculture and the enduring spirit of its people. For generations, this land has yielded its bounty, supporting families through cycles of boom and bust, its economy tied to the rhythms of the earth. While coal once played a significant role in the broader region's past, Shirley itself has always found its strength in the soil, its character shaped by the practicalities of farming and the close-knit bonds of a rural community. The local diner, a simple clapboard building with a perpetually steaming coffee pot, serves as the de facto town square, where news is shared and the day’s concerns are aired under the warm glow of fluorescent lights, a small beacon of continuity in a changing world.
Live animated radar for Shirley 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 | Shirley, Jefferson County, Illinois |
| Coordinates | 38.285049°N, 88.838118°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 62872, 61772 |
| Area Code | 618, 309 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Shirley, Illinois Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Shirley, 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 Shirley includes coordinates 38.285049°N, 88.838118°W, situated in Jefferson County. ZIP code 62872, 61772. Telephone area code: 618, 309. 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.
