Hill_CityHLC
At an airfield/16.6 mi away/2,224 ft/51 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Palco, Kansas
City in Rooks County, Kansas* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 27-32 degrees likely, along with fairly widespread frost formation. * WHERE...Portions of north central Kansas and central, east central, and south central Nebraska, including the Tri Cities. * 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. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Confidence is increasing that at least slightly sub-freezing temperatures and widespread frost formation will likely occur early Saturday morning. As a result, it is probable that most, if not all, of this Watch will be converted to a Warning during the day Friday.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold. To prevent water pipes from freezing; wrap or drain or allow them to drip slowly.
48°
61°/45°
Clear·
Feels like 42°·Gentle breeze 13 mph NNW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Palco until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Palco is 48° and clear at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 42°. The dew point is 29°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 13 mph, gusting to 23 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 38° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 81°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 29°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 13 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
14Air quality
44%Humidity
3%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
48feels42
13mph
Today
Oct 15
6145
42%
22mph
Fri
Oct 16
5537
21mph
Sat
Oct 17
6229
15mph
Sun
Oct 18
6938
17mph
Mon
Oct 19
7043
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7645
13mph
Wed
Oct 21
8154
12mph
48°
61°45°
55°37°
62°29°
69°38°
70°43°
76°45°
81°54°
As of 11:00 PM in Palco, Kansas.
Air quality
The air at Palco
Index 14, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Cedar Bluff (KS), 35 miles off.
14Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)14Good-
- Ozone13Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)7Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 23, good.
GoodModerate
- 23YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Palco
0.30 in in the last 24 hours, 0.42 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.30in
- Last 3 days
- 0.42in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 71%
Visibility
How far you can see at Palco, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Palco, KansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Palco, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Rank361of 1,079
I-70 - East Wakeeney InterchangeK5WKY
Beside a road/24.1 mi away/2,441 ft/166 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station EW3001EW3001
In a volunteer observer's own ground/28.1 mi away/2,011 ft/264 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At a river or reservoir gauge/34.6 mi away/1,751 ft/524 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
PhillipsburgS2093
At a soil climate station/38.9 mi away/1,986 ft/289 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Palco 0.2 ENEKS-RO-18
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.2 mi away/2,260 ft/15 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Plainville 4WNWPLNK1
At a cooperative observer's station/9.7 mi away/2,195 ft/80 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Hill_City, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 16.6 mi from Palco, Kansas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
50.0 F with a dew point of 29.0 F, 44 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 4,700 ft up.
The wind
From the north northeast (20 degrees) at 22 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 39 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
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Plainville 4WNW (PLNK1), 9.7 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:00. measured daily
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