Thompsonville, Illinois Weather
Thompsonville, Illinois — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Thompsonville, Franklin County.
Full aviation weather for Thompsonville is published on the Benton Municipal Airport (KH96) page, 18 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 Thompsonville 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 Thompsonville: Harrisburg-Raleigh Airport (KHSB) 22 km · Veterans Airport of Southern Illinois (KMWA) 29 km · Southern Illinois Airport (KMDH) 46 km · Mount Vernon Outland Airport (KMVN) 46 km · Pinckneyville Du Quoin Airport (KPJY) 53 km
Conditions reported at KH96 describe the airfield itself. Weather 18 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Thompsonville specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Thompsonville.
About Thompsonville, Illinois
Thompsonville exhales a quiet breath of the southern Illinois landscape, a place where the land begins its slow, deliberate swell towards the Shawnee Hills. It lies 47.6 miles west of Posey, IN (from Posey, IN: bearing 263°T), and is situated 9.3 miles east of West Frankfort. Fields of corn and soybeans, burnished gold under the late summer sun, stretch towards stands of oak and hickory, their leaves rustling with a dry, papery sound. The air here carries the faint, sweet scent of drying hay and the deeper, earthy perfume of turned soil. A scattering of weathered barns, their paint faded to the colour of old bone, punctuate the horizon, standing like stoic sentinels against the vast, open sky that seems to hold the light a little longer at dusk, painting the western heavens in hues of bruised plum and molten copper. The history of Thompsonville is etched not in grand monuments, but in the very grain of the land and the enduring spirit of its people. Once a bustling hub fueled by the rich veins of coal beneath its surface, the echoes of that industrial past can still be felt in the quiet resilience that defines the community. While the mines have largely fallen silent, the industrious nature of Thompsonville persists, now finding its expression in the fertile farmlands that surround it, yielding crops that feed the region. Local traditions, passed down through generations, are not ostentatious displays, but rather subtle rhythms of life: the Saturday morning gathering at the general store, the shared stories over a potluck supper, the quiet pride in a well-tended garden.
Live animated radar for Thompsonville 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 | Thompsonville, Franklin County, Illinois |
| Coordinates | 37.917549°N, 88.762284°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 62890 |
| Area Code | 618 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Thompsonville, Illinois Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Thompsonville, 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 Thompsonville includes coordinates 37.917549°N, 88.762284°W, situated in Franklin County. ZIP code 62890. 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.
