Brilliant, Ohio Weather
Brilliant, Ohio — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Brilliant, Jefferson County.
Full aviation weather for Brilliant is published on the Wheeling Ohio County Airport (KHLG) page, 10 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 Brilliant 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 Brilliant: Jefferson County Airpark (K2G2) 12 km · Washington County Airport (KAFJ) 32 km · Pittsburgh International Airport (KPIT) 42 km · Columbiana County Airport (K02G) 45 km · Beaver County Airport (KBVI) 60 km
Conditions reported at KHLG describe the airfield itself. Weather 10 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Brilliant specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Brilliant.
About Brilliant, Ohio
Brilliant lies in a hollow carved by ancient water, where the land rises in broad, rounded shoulders of green. It lies 14.8 miles north-north-east of Wheeling, WV (from Wheeling, WV: bearing 20°T), and is situated 7.3 miles south of Steubenville. The Ohio River, a broad, slow-moving artery, forms the southern boundary of this country, its surface catching the light in shimmering, ever-shifting patterns. Fields, stitched with the darker threads of hedgerows, climb the slopes, their surfaces smoothed by generations of plow and rain. The air here carries the damp scent of fertile earth, mingled with the fainter, metallic tang that sometimes drifts from the river. Even on the clearest days, a soft haze often softens the distant hills, lending a muted, almost dreamlike quality to the horizon. The story of Brilliant is written in coal dust and the clang of industry, a legacy etched into the very bedrock of this place. For decades, the extraction of the earth's dark bounty sustained the families who made their homes here, their lives bound to the rhythmic rise and fall of mine shafts. Though the deepest veins have long since been worked out, the echoes of that era persist, a quiet hum beneath the surface of everyday life. The local economy now finds its footing in other pursuits, a more varied, less singular focus, but the memory of the mines, and the hard work they demanded, remains a palpable thread in the town's character. The river, once a conduit for the coal that fueled a nation, now offers a different kind of promise, its banks a place for quiet contemplation and the slow unfolding of days.
Live animated radar for Brilliant 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 | Brilliant, Jefferson County, Ohio |
| Coordinates | 40.264792°N, 80.626186°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 43913 |
| Area Code | 740 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Brilliant, Ohio Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Brilliant, Ohio, 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 Brilliant includes coordinates 40.264792°N, 80.626186°W, situated in Jefferson County. ZIP code 43913. Telephone area code: 740. Timezone: Eastern Time (America/New_York).
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.
