Perkins, Missouri Weather
Perkins, Missouri — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Perkins, Scott County.
Full aviation weather for Perkins is published on the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport (KCGI) page, 23 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 Perkins 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 Perkins: Sikeston Memorial Municipal Airport (KSIK) 29 km · Dexter Municipal Airport (KDXE) 38 km · Mississippi County Airport (KCHQ) 46 km · Cairo Regional Airport (KCIR) 49 km · Malden Regional Airport (KMAW) 58 km
Conditions reported at KCGI describe the airfield itself. Weather 23 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Perkins specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Perkins.
About Perkins, Missouri
Perkins lies where the gentle, rolling hills of southeastern Missouri begin to flatten, yielding to the broad, fertile expanse of the Mississippi River lowlands. It lies 20.3 miles south-west of Cape Girardeau, MO (from Cape Girardeau, MO: bearing 224°T), and is situated 8.9 miles south-west of Chaffee. The air here, especially in the languid afternoons of summer, carries the sweet, earthy scent of ripening corn and the fainter, more distant perfume of honeysuckle tangled along the roadsides. Creeks, more like wide, slow-moving ribbons of brown water, snake through fields of soybeans and wheat, their banks often fringed with a dense, green tangle of willows and sycamores. The light, when it catches the dust motes dancing in the air above a freshly plowed field, takes on a soft, golden quality, as if the very essence of the land were being illuminated. The history of Perkins is deeply entwined with the rich agricultural soil that defines this part of Scott County, a place where generations have worked the land. Its economy, though modest, has long been rooted in the bounty of the fields, with crops like corn, soybeans, and cotton forming the backbone of local prosperity. While Perkins might not boast grand monuments, its character is built on the quiet resilience of its people and the enduring legacy of the farming families who have shaped its landscape. The rhythm of life here is dictated by the seasons, a gentle cadence that has persisted through the decades, fostering a sense of continuity and a deep connection to the earth.
Live animated radar for Perkins 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 | Perkins, Scott County, Missouri |
| Coordinates | 37.094773°N, 89.775366°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 63774 |
| Area Code | 816 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Perkins, Missouri Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Perkins, Missouri, 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 Perkins includes coordinates 37.094773°N, 89.775366°W, situated in Scott County. ZIP code 63774. Telephone area code: 816. 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.
