Penalosa, Kansas Weather
Penalosa, Kansas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Penalosa, Kingman County.
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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.
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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 | July 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, real-time aviation weather (live METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport, with a modeled estimate shown when no station is in range), precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. 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. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov (NOAA), with a modeled estimate used where no nearby reporting station is available. 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.
