Penalosa, Kansas Weather
Penalosa, Kansas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Penalosa, Kingman County.
Full aviation weather for Penalosa is published on the Kingman Airport Clyde Cessna Field (K9K8) page, 18 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 Penalosa 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 Penalosa: Pratt Regional Airport (KPTT) 38 km · Medicine Lodge Airport (KK51) 54 km · Harper Municipal Airport (K8K2) 54 km · Hutchinson Municipal Airport (KHUT) 56 km
Conditions reported at K9K8 describe the airfield itself. Weather 18 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Penalosa specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Penalosa.
About Penalosa, Kansas
Penalosa rests on a broad, sun-baked prairie, where the horizon stretches in an unbroken sweep of tawny grasses and cultivated fields. It lies 31.9 miles south-west of Hutchinson, KS (from Hutchinson, KS: bearing 222°T), and is situated 12.3 miles west-north-west of Kingman. The land here, a tapestry of subtle ochre and muted gold, rolls gently, interrupted only by the occasional cluster of cottonwood trees that mark a dry creek bed or a farmstead. The air, thin and carrying the scent of dust and ripening wheat, hums with the distant drone of machinery, a constant reminder of the land’s enduring fertility. Even in the deepest quiet, there's a palpable sense of space, of an immense sky pressing down, its vastness mirrored in the solitary roads that cut straight lines across the landscape, disappearing into the shimmering heat haze. Though now a whisper of its former self, Penalosa carries the echoes of a pioneer spirit, a tenacious will to carve a life from this seemingly unyielding soil. The local economy, once buoyed by wheat farming and the railroad that brought life to these plains, has adapted to the ebb and flow of agricultural fortunes. The weathered grain elevator, a stoic sentinel against the vast sky, still stands as a monument to the bounty of the harvest, a silent testament to the generations who have worked this earth. The rhythm of life in Penalosa is dictated by the seasons, by the planting and the reaping, a quiet, persistent cycle that has shaped the character of its inhabitants, fostering a resilience and a deep connection to the land that defines this corner of Kingman County.
Live animated radar for Penalosa 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 | Penalosa, Kingman County, Kansas |
| Coordinates | 37.716684°N, 98.319793°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 67035 |
| Area Code | 785 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Penalosa, Kansas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Penalosa, 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 Penalosa includes coordinates 37.716684°N, 98.319793°W, situated in Kingman County. ZIP code 67035. 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.
