Wamac, Illinois Weather
Wamac, Illinois — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Wamac, Marion County.
Full aviation weather for Wamac is published on the Centralia Municipal Airport (KENL) page, 4 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 Wamac 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 Wamac: Salem–Leckrone Airport (KSLO) 21 km · Mount Vernon Outland Airport (KMVN) 32 km · Greenville Airport (KGRE) 42 km · Vandalia Municipal Airport (KVLA) 54 km · Benton Municipal Airport (KH96) 59 km
Conditions reported at KENL describe the airfield itself. Weather 4 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Wamac specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Wamac.
About Wamac, Illinois
Wamac breathes the flat, open-sky character of southern Illinois, a place where fields of corn and soybeans stretch to a horizon that feels perpetually vast. It lies 42.0 miles east of O'Fallon, IL (from O'Fallon, IL: bearing 98°T), and is situated 1.2 miles south-south-west of Centralia. The land here is a study in gentle, almost imperceptible slopes, the kind that guide drainage toward unseen creeks and the distant Kaskaskia River. Even on the clearest days, a certain softness imbues the air, a humid embrace that carries the scent of rich, dark earth and, in season, the faint sweetness of ripening fruit from nearby orchards. The houses, mostly modest and well-kept, seem to settle into the landscape rather than impose upon it, their porches often turned toward the slow procession of the sun, catching the muted gold of late afternoon light. The story of Wamac is intertwined with the agricultural pulse of Clinton County, a history written in the turning of soil and the planting of seeds. This area’s economy has long been rooted in the bounty of the land, with farming and the associated industries forming its backbone for generations. While not a bustling metropolis, Wamac possesses a quiet resilience, a character shaped by practical folk who understand the cycles of nature and the value of steady work. A distinctive feature of the locale is its position within a network of smaller communities, each contributing to a collective identity that values neighborliness and a shared sense of place, where the echoes of past harvests still resonate in the quiet hum of everyday life.
Live animated radar for Wamac 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 | Wamac, Marion County, Illinois |
| Coordinates | 38.508938°N, 89.140627°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 62801 |
| Area Code | 618 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Wamac, Illinois Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Wamac, 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 Wamac includes coordinates 38.508938°N, 89.140627°W, situated in Marion County. ZIP code 62801. 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.
