Talmage, Kansas Weather
Talmage, Kansas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Talmage, Dickinson County.
Full aviation weather for Talmage is published on the Freeman Field (K3JC) page, 36 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. 6 airfields within reach of Talmage 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 Talmage: Minneapolis City County Airport (K45K) 40 km · Clay Center Municipal Airport (KCYW) 41 km · Salina Municipal Airport (KSLN) 43 km · Marshall Army Air Field (KFRI) 43 km · Manhattan Regional Airport (KMHK) 52 km
Conditions reported at K3JC describe the airfield itself. Weather 36 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Talmage specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Talmage.
About Talmage, Kansas
Talmage rests in a landscape of broad, gentle swells, the Kansas prairie unfurling like a rumpled quilt under an immense sky. It lies 22.8 miles north-east of Salina, KS (from Salina, KS: bearing 56°T), and is situated 7.9 miles north-north-west of Abilene. The earth here is a deep, rich loam, a testament to generations of cultivation that has smoothed the ancient contours of the land. Fields of wheat and milo stretch to the horizon, rippling in the ceaseless wind, their colors shifting with the sun's arc—from the pale gold of dawn to the bruised purple of approaching storms. The air carries the dry, clean scent of sun-baked soil and the distant hum of machinery, a constant, quiet song of the land at work. Evenings here are painted with an almost unbelievable clarity, the fading light casting long, skeletal shadows from solitary farmhouses and windbreaks of cottonwoods, imbuing the vast emptiness with a profound, hushed beauty. The story of Talmage is written in the soil and the shared labor of its people, a history deeply intertwined with the agricultural heartland of Kansas. For decades, the economy of Talmage has been sustained by the bounty of the surrounding farms, where wheat and corn are king, their harvests fueling the local elevators and mills that stand as silent sentinels on the edge of town. This is a place where the rhythm of the seasons dictates the pulse of life, where community ties are as strong as the roots of the prairie grass. The small businesses that line Main Street, from the hardware store to the diner, are more than just places of commerce; they are the gathering points, the informal town halls where the day's news is exchanged and the shared concerns of life on the prairie are discussed. The distinctive character of Talmage is not found in grand monuments, but in the quiet resilience of its people and the enduring connection to the land that defines it.
Live animated radar for Talmage 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 | Talmage, Dickinson County, Kansas |
| Coordinates | 39.024997°N, 97.260577°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 67482 |
| Area Code | 785 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Talmage, Kansas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Talmage, 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 Talmage includes coordinates 39.024997°N, 97.260577°W, situated in Dickinson County. ZIP code 67482. 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.
