HutchinsonHUT
At an airfield/21.5 mi away/1,542 ft/24 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Pretty Prairie, Kansas
City in Reno County, Kansas* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures in the upper 20s to low 30s expected. * WHERE...Barton, Ellsworth, Lincoln, McPherson, Rice, Russell, Saline, and Reno Counties. * WHEN...From 1 AM to 9 AM CDT Saturday. * 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.
52°
57°/41°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 52°·Fresh breeze 23 mph N
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Pretty Prairie until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Pretty Prairie is 52° and mostly clear at 1 PM. The dew point is 35°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north at 23 mph, gusting to 36 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 54° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 7 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 Thursday, near 82°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:53 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:57 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 13 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
5UV Moderate
22Air quality
47%Humidity
15%Cloud
Now
1:00 PM
52feels52
23mph
Today
Oct 16
5741
25mph
Sat
Oct 17
6032
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6536
18mph
Mon
Oct 19
7044
12mph
Tue
Oct 20
7648
13mph
Wed
Oct 21
8053
12mph
Thu
Oct 22
8257
overcast
52°
57°41°
60°32°
65°36°
70°44°
76°48°
80°53°
82°57°
As of 1:00 PM in Pretty Prairie, Kansas.
Air quality
The air at Pretty Prairie
Index 22, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 PM from its reporting area, Wichita (KS), 39 miles off.
22Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)19Good-
- Ozone22Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)19Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 21, good.
GoodModerate
- 21YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Pretty Prairie
None in the last 24 hours; 0.74 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.74in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Pretty Prairie, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sun 7 AM, lowest 8 miles Sun 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Pretty Prairie, KansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Pretty Prairie, 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 now4 instruments
Rank339of 1,079
In a volunteer observer's own ground/23.5 mi away/1,466 ft/100 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Cowskin C At 119Th St At Wichita07144480
At a river or reservoir gauge/29.8 mi away/1,313 ft/253 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
I-135 @ 17th St.K5WSU
Beside a road/38.8 mi away/1,322 ft/244 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Pretty Prairie 0.3 EKS-RN-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.2 mi away/1,486 ft/80 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Pretty Prairie 1 NPYPK1
At a cooperative observer's station/1.1 mi away/1,578 ft/12 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Hutchinson, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 21.5 mi from Pretty Prairie, Kansas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:52 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
55.0 F with a dew point of 35.0 F, 47 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 4,500 ft up.
The wind
From the north (360 degrees) at 18 mph, gusting 35 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 38 mph.
The full report of Hutchinson, 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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