Bushton, Kansas Weather
Bushton, Kansas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Bushton, Rice County.
Full aviation weather for Bushton is published on the Lyons-Rice County Municipal Airport (KLYO) page, 24 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. 4 airfields within reach of Bushton 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 Bushton: Ellsworth Municipal Airport (K9K7) 30 km · Great Bend Municipal Airport (KGBD) 44 km · Russell Municipal Airport (KRSL) 54 km
Conditions reported at KLYO describe the airfield itself. Weather 24 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Bushton specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Bushton.
About Bushton, Kansas
Bushton unfolds across a landscape etched by wind and sun, a quiet scattering of homes and businesses against the vast, breathing canvas of the Kansas prairie. It lies 40.1 miles north-west of Hutchinson, KS (from Hutchinson, KS: bearing 321°T), and is situated 15.6 miles north-west of Lyons. Here, the earth rolls gently, a sea of amber and gold when the wheat ripens, its subtle contours hinting at the long, slow sculpting by water and time. The sky, a boundless dome, seems to press down, then recede, its moods shifting from the piercing blue of midday to the bruised purples and soft oranges of evening, painting the horizon with a hushed, ephemeral beauty. The air itself carries a dry, clean scent, tinged with the dust of well-worn roads and the distant, sweet perfume of blooming wildflowers in the summer months. The history of Bushton is a story told in grain elevators and the quiet industry of agriculture, a place where the land has always dictated the pace of life. Founded by settlers drawn to the fertile soil, its economy remains deeply rooted in the cultivation of wheat and other grains, the rhythmic cycles of planting and harvest shaping the community's rhythm. You can almost hear the echoes of bygone harvests in the wind that sighs through the empty fields, a testament to generations who coaxed sustenance from this prairie soil. While not a place of grand monuments, Bushton offers a distinctive character, a resilience forged in the open, unadorned expanse of central Kansas, where the simple act of living is itself a quiet triumph.
Live animated radar for Bushton 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 | Bushton, Rice County, Kansas |
| Coordinates | 38.51251°N, 98.395345°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 67427 |
| Area Code | 785 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Bushton, Kansas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Bushton, 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 Bushton includes coordinates 38.512510°N, 98.395345°W, situated in Rice County. ZIP code 67427. 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.
