Jim Falls, Wisconsin Weather
Jim Falls, Wisconsin — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Jim Falls, Chippewa County.
Full aviation weather for Jim Falls is published on the Chippewa Valley Regional Airport (KEAU) page, 26 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. 5 airfields within reach of Jim Falls 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 Jim Falls: Chetek Municipal Southworth Airport (KY23) 41 km · Menomonie Municipal Score Field (KLUM) 50 km · Rusk County Airport (KRCX) 54 km · Rice Lake Regional Airport - Carl's Field (KRPD) 57 km
Conditions reported at KEAU describe the airfield itself. Weather 26 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Jim Falls specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Jim Falls.
About Jim Falls, Wisconsin
Jim Falls sprawls across a landscape shaped by the patient hand of water and ice. It lies 1.8 miles south-south-east of Chippewa, WI (from Chippewa, WI: bearing 148°T), and is situated 9.5 miles north-east of Chippewa Falls. Rolling hills, remnants of ancient glacial deposits, give way to the fertile floodplains of the Chippewa River, its waters a perpetual, glinting ribbon through the green. Pine and oak forests, thick and hushed, cloak the higher ground, their scent mingling with the damp earth and the distant perfume of ripening corn. The air here carries a particular coolness, even in summer, a whisper of the northern woods that press close, and in the early mornings, a fine mist often hangs low, softening the edges of the world and lending a quiet dignity to the farmsteads scattered across the fields. The story of Jim Falls is deeply entwined with the power of the Chippewa River and the bounty of its watershed. Logging once dominated the economy, with massive rafts of timber making their way downstream, a testament to the raw, untamed nature of this region in its early days. Today, agriculture holds sway, with dairy farms and cash crops defining the economic pulse, their fields a checkerboard of green and gold under the vast, generous sky. The presence of the Jim Falls dam, a sturdy concrete sentinel, hints at the ongoing harnessing of the river's might, a modern chapter in a long history of human interaction with this place, a place where the echoes of the past are carried on the breeze that rustles through the tall grasses.
Live animated radar for Jim Falls 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 | Jim Falls, Chippewa County, Wisconsin |
| Coordinates | 45.04524°N, 91.272929°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 54748 |
| Area Code | 715 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Jim Falls, Wisconsin Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Jim Falls, Wisconsin, 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 Jim Falls includes coordinates 45.045240°N, 91.272929°W, situated in Chippewa County. ZIP code 54748. Telephone area code: 715. 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.
