Sublette, Illinois Weather
Sublette, Illinois — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Sublette, Lee County.
Full aviation weather for Sublette is published on the Bresson Airport (KC82) page, 17 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 Sublette 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 Sublette: Dixon Municipal Charles R. Walgreen Field (KC73) 28 km · Rochelle Municipal Airport - Koritz Field (KRPJ) 30 km · Illinois Valley Regional Airport Walter A Duncan Field (KVYS) 33 km · Whiteside County Airport - Joseph H Bittorf Field (KSQI) 39 km · Hinckley Airport (K0C2) 46 km
Conditions reported at KC82 describe the airfield itself. Weather 17 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Sublette specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Sublette.
About Sublette, Illinois
Sublette, a quiet sentinel of Lee County, presides over a landscape that speaks of patient cultivation. It lies 31.6 miles south-west of DeKalb, IL (from DeKalb, IL: bearing 231°T), and is situated 8.7 miles north-west of Mendota. Here, the earth lies in broad, sweeping plains, interrupted only by the gentle rise and fall of fertile ground, a testament to the agricultural spirit that has long held sway. The sky above Sublette is an immense canvas, often brushed with the pale gold of dawn or the deep, bruised purples of an approaching storm, each hue reflecting the vastness of the prairie. The air carries the clean, dry scent of sun-baked soil and the distant, sweet perfume of ripening corn, a fragrance that clings to the senses long after one has departed. The history of Sublette is interwoven with the westward expansion and the enduring strength of farming families who first broke this prairie sod. Its economy, deeply rooted in the cultivation of corn and soybeans, hums with the steady rhythm of the seasons, the harvest a communal exhale of effort and bounty. The grain elevators, stark sentinels against the horizon, stand as monuments to this agricultural endeavor, their shadows stretching long in the late afternoon sun. While no grand monuments mark its arrival, the unpretentious character of Sublette, its quiet resilience, and the shared understanding among its residents forged by generations of working the land, are its most distinctive features.
Live animated radar for Sublette 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 | Sublette, Lee County, Illinois |
| Coordinates | 41.643088°N, 89.227868°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 61367 |
| Area Code | 815 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Sublette, Illinois Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Sublette, 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 Sublette includes coordinates 41.643088°N, 89.227868°W, situated in Lee County. ZIP code 61367. Telephone area code: 815. 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.
