Hill_CityHLC
At an airfield/1.1 mi away/2,224 ft/24 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Hill City, Kansas
City in Graham County, Kansas* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 29 possible. * WHERE...Portions of northwest and west central Kansas and southwest Nebraska. * WHEN...From late Friday night through Saturday morning. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
43°
56°/38°
Clear·
Feels like 36°·Moderate breeze 16 mph NNW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Hill City until 10 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Hill City is 43° and clear at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 36°. The dew point is 31°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 16 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 54° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 82°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 63°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 29°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:59 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:59 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 10 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
22Air quality
60%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
43feels36
16mph
Today
Oct 16
5638
20mph
Sat
Oct 17
6329
15mph
Sun
Oct 18
7039
16mph
Mon
Oct 19
7143
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7745
13mph
Wed
Oct 21
8254
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
8057
29%
14mph
43°
56°38°
63°29°
70°39°
71°43°
77°45°
82°54°
80°57°
As of 2:00 AM in Hill City, Kansas.
Air quality
The air at Hill City
Index 22, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Cedar Bluff (KS), 42 miles off.
22Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)14Good-
- Ozone22Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)14Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 12, good.
GoodModerate
- 12YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Hill City
0.31 in in the last 24 hours, 0.70 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.31in
- Last 3 days
- 0.70in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 44%
Visibility
How far you can see at Hill City, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Hill City, KansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Hill City, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.0 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Rank361of 1,079
Citizen station EW3001EW3001
In a volunteer observer's own ground/24.7 mi away/2,011 ft/189 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
I-70 - East Wakeeney InterchangeK5WKY
Beside a road/24.9 mi away/2,441 ft/241 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
PRAIRIE DOG CREEK 4 E Clayton 4eCLNK1
At a river or reservoir gauge/30.7 mi away/2,362 ft/162 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
PhillipsburgS2093
At a soil climate station/40.0 mi away/1,986 ft/214 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Hill City 1 EHLLK1
At a cooperative observer's station/1.0 mi away/2,146 ft/54 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Hill City 1.1 EKS-GH-15
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.1 mi away/2,161 ft/39 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The weather at Hill_City, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 1.1 mi from Hill City, Kansas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
44.0 F with a dew point of 31.0 F, 60 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 3,000 ft up.
The wind
From the north (350 degrees) at 16 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 36 mph.
The full report of Hill_City, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
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