Big Bow, Kansas Weather
Big Bow, Kansas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Big Bow, Stanton County.
Full aviation weather for Big Bow is published on the Stanton County Municipal Airport (KJHN) page, 15 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 Big Bow 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 Big Bow: Ulysses Airport (KULS) 17 km · Hugoton Municipal Airport (KHQG) 48 km · Syracuse Hamilton County Municipal Airport (K3K3) 51 km · Satanta Municipal Airport (K1K9) 52 km
Conditions reported at KJHN describe the airfield itself. Weather 15 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Big Bow specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Big Bow.
About Big Bow, Kansas
Big Bow lies in a landscape where the earth breathes under an immense sky. It lies 47.0 miles south-west of Garden City, KS (from Garden City, KS: bearing 233°T), and is situated 11.4 miles west of Ulysses. The land here is a study in subtle shifts, a vast, sun-bleached prairie stretching towards horizons that blur into the pale blue. Rolling swells of grassland, parched gold in the dry heat, give way to flatter expanses where the wind, an unseen sculptor, plays ceaselessly across the terrain. Occasional clumps of hardy, wind-bent trees offer brief, dark punctuation marks against the overwhelming openness, their branches reaching like gnarled hands towards the heavens. The air itself carries a dry, clean scent, a blend of dust and the faint, sweet perfume of wild grasses, and in the late afternoon, the light takes on a honeyed quality, casting long, languid shadows that seem to deepen the very soul of the land. The history of Big Bow is etched not in grand monuments but in the quiet persistence of those who worked this earth, their lives a testament to resilience. This was a place born of the plow, a frontier outpost where the promise of fertile soil drew settlers seeking a new beginning. The local economy, deeply rooted in agriculture, still echoes with the steady rhythm of planting and harvest, the lifeblood of the community flowing from fields of wheat and corn that unfurl like rumpled carpets across the landscape. While no major highways bisect this quiet corner of the prairie, the few roads that do serve as arteries, connecting scattered farmsteads and the modest heart of Big Bow itself, a place where time seems to move at the unhurried pace of the seasons, marked by the slow march of the sun across the wide Kansas sky.
Live animated radar for Big Bow 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 | Big Bow, Stanton County, Kansas |
| Coordinates | 37.565019°N, 101.561558°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 67855 |
| Area Code | 785 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Big Bow, Kansas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Big Bow, Kansas, 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 Big Bow includes coordinates 37.565019°N, 101.561558°W, situated in Stanton County. ZIP code 67855. Telephone area code: 785. 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.
