Preston, Kansas Weather
Preston, Kansas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Preston, Pratt County.
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About Preston, Kansas
Preston rests in a broad, open sweep of Kansas land, a place where the sky feels vast enough to swallow horizons. It lies 39.9 miles west-south-west of Hutchinson, KS (from Hutchinson, KS: bearing 239°T), and is situated 12.8 miles north-east of Pratt. The terrain here is a study in subtle shifts, a gentle rise and fall of prairie, broken by the occasional, determined stand of cottonwoods along the low-lying curves of the earth. The air, especially on a still evening, carries the dry, clean scent of sun-baked soil and the faint sweetness of ripening wheat, a smell that clings to the very bones of the place. The light, too, has its own character, softening to a warm honey glow as the sun dips, painting the endless fields in shades of amber and rose, a quiet benediction on the long day's work. The history of Preston is written in the enduring grain elevators that punctuate the skyline, silent sentinels of a past tied to the earth's bounty. This was a land shaped by the plow and the harvest, its economy for generations driven by the sturdy rhythm of agriculture, the wheat fields stretching like a golden sea under the prairie sun. While industry has ebbed and flowed, the heart of Preston remains in the land, in the farmers who still tend the soil, their lives a continuation of a long, unbroken lineage. The occasional grain truck rumbling down the main street, the quiet hum of conversation from the local diner – these are the sounds that mark the days in Preston, a steady, unhurried pulse in a landscape that has seen much and remembers more in its silent, wind-swept expanses.
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| Location | Preston, Pratt County, Kansas |
| Coordinates | 37.758906°N, 98.553138°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 67583 |
| Area Code | 785 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Preston, Kansas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Preston, 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 Preston includes coordinates 37.758906°N, 98.553138°W, situated in Pratt County. ZIP code 67583. 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.
