Walnut Hill, Illinois Weather
Walnut Hill, Illinois — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Walnut Hill, Marion County.
Full aviation weather for Walnut Hill is published on the Centralia Municipal Airport (KENL) page, 6 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 Walnut Hill 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 Walnut Hill: Salem–Leckrone Airport (KSLO) 20 km · Mount Vernon Outland Airport (KMVN) 24 km · Greenville Airport (KGRE) 49 km · Benton Municipal Airport (KH96) 53 km · Flora Municipal Airport (KFOA) 55 km
Conditions reported at KENL describe the airfield itself. Weather 6 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Walnut Hill specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Walnut Hill.
About Walnut Hill, Illinois
Walnut Hill rises from the gentle, rolling terrain of Marion County, a place where the land itself seems to breathe with a quiet resilience. It lies 47.6 miles east of O Fallon, IL (from O Fallon, IL: bearing 99°T), and is situated 5.9 miles south-east of Centralia. Here, the horizon is a soft seam between the boundless Illinois sky and the cultivated fields that stretch like a patchwork quilt of greens and golds, interrupted by the darker, more somber lines of mature woodlands. The air, especially in the late afternoon, carries a faint, earthy perfume of turned soil and the distant sweetness of ripening corn, a scent that settles deep into the bones. The scattered farmsteads, with their weathered barns and silos, stand as stoic sentinels against the vastness, their silhouettes softened by the diffuse light that filters through the humid atmosphere. The history of Walnut Hill is as deeply rooted as the ancient oaks that give it its name, a story etched into the very soil by generations of farmers and laborers. This land once echoed with the industry of coal mining, a testament to the subterranean riches that fueled the region's growth, though now the echoes are fainter, replaced by the steady hum of agricultural life. The local economy, still tethered to the productivity of the earth, thrives on the cultivation of soybeans and corn, the bounty of which is reflected in the quiet prosperity of its residents. Walnut Hill itself embodies a particular kind of Midwestern spirit, one of enduring strength and quiet dignity, where the pace of life is dictated less by the clock and more by the turning of the seasons and the predictable rhythm of the sun.
Live animated radar for Walnut Hill 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 | Walnut Hill, Marion County, Illinois |
| Coordinates | 38.477271°N, 89.0434°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 62893 |
| Area Code | 618 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Walnut Hill, Illinois Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Walnut Hill, 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 Walnut Hill includes coordinates 38.477271°N, 89.043400°W, situated in Marion County. ZIP code 62893. 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.
