Russell, KS Weather

Russell County10:12 AM CDT38.90°N, 98.86°WElevation 1,827 ft

Current conditions

Slight Chance Rain Showers
59°
Slight Chance Rain Showers
Feels like 59°
High 72°·Low 54°
WindSE 7 mph
Humidity75%
Dew point51°
Cloud cover73%
Sunrise7:56 AM
Sunset6:45 PM

Forecast for this hour (no station report in the last two hours)

Forecast

10-day

  • Sunday

    A chance of rain showers after 7am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 72. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

  • Sunday Night

    A chance of rain showers before 7pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 54. Chance of precipitation is 40%.

  • Monday

    Rain showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 65. Chance of precipitation is 70%.

National Weather Service forecast updated 2 days ago.

Hourly

Hourly forecast
  1. Now Slight Chance Rain Showers 59°16%
  2. 11 AM Slight Chance Rain Showers 62°16%
  3. 12 PM Slight Chance Rain Showers 65°16%
  4. 1 PM Chance Rain Showers 68°32%
  5. 2 PM Chance Rain Showers 70°32%
  6. 3 PM Chance Rain Showers 71°32%
  7. 4 PM Chance Rain Showers 71°32%
  8. 5 PM Chance Rain Showers 70°32%
  9. 6 PM Chance Rain Showers 69°32%
  10. 7 PM Chance Showers And Thunderstorms 67°30%
  11. 8 PM Chance Showers And Thunderstorms 65°30%
  12. 9 PM Chance Showers And Thunderstorms 63°30%
  13. 10 PM Chance Rain Showers 61°30%
  14. 11 PM Chance Rain Showers 60°30%
  15. Mon12 AM Chance Rain Showers 60°30%
  16. 1 AM Chance Rain Showers 59°43%
  17. 2 AM Chance Rain Showers 58°43%
  18. 3 AM Chance Rain Showers 57°43%
  19. 4 AM Chance Rain Showers 56°43%
  20. 5 AM Chance Rain Showers 55°43%
  21. 6 AM Chance Rain Showers 54°43%
  22. 7 AM Rain Showers Likely 54°66%
  23. 8 AM Rain Showers Likely 55°66%
  24. 9 AM Rain Showers Likely 57°66%

10-day forecast

Details
  1. TonightOct 22 Partly Cloudy Partly Cloudy59°
  2. FriOct 23 Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny60°78°
  3. SatOct 24 Partly Sunny Partly Sunny53°77°
  4. TodayOct 25 Chance Rain Showers Chance Rain Showers43%54°72°
  5. MonOct 26 Rain Showers Likely Rain Showers Likely66%48°65°
  6. TueOct 27 Chance Rain Showers Chance Rain Showers40%48°61°
  7. WedOct 28 Slight Chance Rain Showers then Mostly Sunny Slight Chance Rain Showers then Mostly Sunny16%46°65°
  8. ThuOct 29 Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny64°
  9. FriOct 30 Partly cloudy Partly cloudy38°61°
  10. SatOct 31 Cloudy Cloudy45°65°

Days after the National Weather Service's seven are MET Norway's outlook, a computer model with no forecaster's review.

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Air quality

16
Good
Fine particles (PM2.5)

Air quality is satisfactory, and air pollution poses little or no risk.

Cedar Bluff, KS reporting area · 1 hr ago. Data from AirNow (EPA and its state, local and tribal partners); preliminary and subject to change.

Sun & moon

Sunrise 7:56 AM
Sunset 6:45 PM
Daylight 10 h 48 min (−2 min 20 s tomorrow)
Full Moon · 99% lit
Moonrise 6:06 PM Moonset 7:21 AM
Full moon Oct 26 New moon Nov 9

Almanac

Monthly
Normal high / low65° / 38°
Month to date2.31 in (normal 1.45 in)

Russell Municipal Ap, records since 1949. Normals 1991–2020. Data from NOAA's Regional Climate Centers (ACIS).

Nearby

Forecasters' discussion

From the National Weather Service office in ICT, issued 6 hrs ago

Key Messages

- Near to above average temperatures over the upcoming week

- Rain chances increase this afternoon across central KS; chances spread into south-central KS by Monday night

- More rain chances by late next week into next weekend

Discussion

Issued at 315 AM CDT Sun Oct 25 2026

As of 230 AM Sunday morning, a slow-moving midlevel trough remains across the southwest US with ridging across the central and eastern CONUS. A northern stream midlevel shortwave trough was advancing across Ontario with an attendant surface trough bisecting KS from southwest to northeast. Widely scattered showers continue to reside across far western KS and CO within a broad zone of midlevel WAA and gentle height falls. The midlevel height falls will gradually spread eastward this afternoon and tonight. This will spread rain chances into portions of central KS late this afternoon into the evening. These widely scattered showers will continue tonight and into Monday with the best chances remaining across central and western KS. More- widespread rain shower activity is anticipated Monday afternoon as the main shortwave trough ejects into the central high Plains. Rain chances will extend to the I-135 corridor Monday afternoon and even towards southeast KS late Monday night into Tuesday morning a secondary weak shortwave trough lifts from west TX into the Ozarks. As far as rain amounts are concerns, areas generally along and southeast of the KS Turnpike will see the lightest amounts with totals near or less than 0.10". As we progress westward and into central KS, amounts up to 0.50" are possible, especially across Barton and Russell counties.

Transitioning into midweek, broad southwesterly midlevel flow will remain as another western CONUS trough deepens. Broad low and midlevel WAA may continue to yield isolated to scattered showers especially at night. By weeks-end and into next week, a series of weak perturbations may eject across the area, resulting in intermittent rain chances.

Aviation

Issued at 1028 PM CDT Sat Oct 24 2026

A frontal boundary will stall over central Kansas tonight then gradually lift back northward on Sunday with north winds behind the front switching back to the south. High clouds will stream across the region with VFR conditions expected over the next 24hrs.

Ict Watches

None.

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