Plains has hot summers
Plains has chilly winters and hot summers, with very little rain. A typical July afternoon reaches 93°, a January night drops to 20°, and about 17 inches of snow falls in a normal winter. Normal November highs come to 58°, and lows to 30°.
Getting the latest forecast from the National Weather Service…
What stands out about Plains’s weather
Read from 30 years of NOAA records. Each one opens the full story on the Climate page.
Where today sits in Plains’s year
Typical highs and lows month by month, from 30 years of NOAA records.
Weather talk
Road reports, first frosts and storm memories from neighbors in Plains.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Forecast, conditions and alerts: National Weather Service. Climate: NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020 and 1901–2000. Temperatures and rainfall come from NOAA’s gridded normals for Plains itself (about a 3-mile square). Snow, frost dates and day counts: the NOAA station at Meade, KS (14 mi). Sunrise and sunset are calculated from the town’s position. Normals are 30-year averages, not a forecast.