Preston, Kansas Weather
Preston, Kansas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Preston, Pratt County.
Full aviation weather for Preston is published on the Pratt Regional Airport (KPTT) 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. 3 airfields within reach of Preston 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 Preston: Kingman Airport Clyde Cessna Field (K9K8) 39 km · Medicine Lodge Airport (KK51) 55 km
Conditions reported at KPTT describe the airfield itself. Weather 18 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Preston specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Preston.
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.
Live animated radar for Preston 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 | 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 | September 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, 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 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. 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.
