Harrison, Indiana Weather
Harrison, Indiana — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery for Harrison, Vigo County.
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About Harrison, Indiana
Harrison sits low, a collection of brick and clapboard clinging to the gentle slopes that bleed into the Wabash River’s floodplain. It lies 4.3 miles north of Terre Haute, IN (from Terre Haute, IN: bearing 354°T), and is situated 9.0 miles south of Clinton. Fields of corn, their stalks already brittle with the late summer sun, stretch out like a rumpled green quilt, broken only by the darker, richer earth of freshly tilled plots. The air, especially as the day begins to cool, carries the faint, sweet scent of drying hay and something else, something metallic and distant, a hum that seems to emanate from the very ground. The sky here is vast, a pale blue canvas that can turn a bruised purple at the first hint of a storm, and the light, when it hits the weathered siding of the houses, seems to hold a memory of long afternoons. This stretch of Vigo County has seen its share of hands work the land, from the early settlers who cleared forests for farms to the coal miners who dug deep into the earth for a different kind of harvest. Harrison itself grew in the shadow of these industries, its fortunes tied to the river that was once a highway for goods and the mines that provided livelihoods for generations. The economy now leans more towards agriculture, the steady, predictable cycle of planting and harvesting, but the echoes of its industrial past are still present in the stoic faces of the older residents and the occasional, half-forgotten slag pile on the horizon. There’s a quiet pride in Harrison, a sense of being a place that endures, its character shaped by the patient rhythm of the seasons and the enduring strength of the people who call it home.
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| Location | Harrison, Vigo County, Indiana |
| Coordinates | 39.528647°N, 87.422242°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 47885, 47112 |
| Area Code | 765, 317 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Harrison, Indiana Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Harrison, Indiana, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, real-time aviation weather (live METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport, with a modeled estimate shown when no station is in range), precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. 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 Harrison includes coordinates 39.528647°N, 87.422242°W, situated in Vigo County. ZIP code 47885, 47112. Telephone area code: 765, 317. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov (NOAA), with a modeled estimate used where no nearby reporting station is available. 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.
