42.8890, -100.5530

1. Mon4 PM75°6%21 mph
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4. 7 PM71°43%16 mph
5. 8 PM68°72%16 mph
6. 9 PM66°73%17 mph
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8. 11 PM65°69%17 mph
9. Tue12 AM64°77%18 mph
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45. 12 PM66°19%5 mph
46. 1 PM68°7%6 mph
47. 2 PM70°7%7 mph
48. 3 PM70°7%8 mph

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1. TodaySep 2875°59°Mostly Cloudy74%0.11 inwind 21 mph · gusts 31 mph
2. TueSep 2969°53°Rain Showers81%0.45 inwind 18 mph · gusts 26 mph
3. WedSep 3070°51°Slight Chance Rain Showers26%0.13 inwind 8 mph · gusts 15 mph
4. ThuOct 161°43°Mostly Sunny4%wind 14 mph · gusts 23 mph
5. FriOct 266°49°Sunny2%wind 18 mph · gusts 29 mph
6. SatOct 366°45°Sunny7%wind 17 mph · gusts 26 mph
7. SunOct 460°46°Sunny5%wind 10 mph · gusts 17 mph
8. MonOct 566°51°3%wind 18 mph · gusts 29 mph
9. TueOct 670°51°National Blend5%wind 14 mph · gusts 23 mph
10. WedOct 768°50°National Blend2%wind 10 mph · gusts 17 mph
11. ThuOct 868°50°National Blend4%wind 9 mph · gusts 17 mph
12. FriOct 9~69°54°Model mean
13. SatOct 10~69°49°Model mean
14. SunOct 11~72°53°Model mean
15. MonOct 12~69°50°Model mean
16. TueOct 13~71°51°Model mean

• Feels like75°
• WindS 21 mphgusts 31 mph
• Radar over this pointno reading
• Humidity62%
• Dew point61°
• Pressure—
• UV index—
• Air quality—
• Visibility10 mi
• Sunrise and sunsetSunrise · Sunset
• Moonrise8:10 PMMoonset 9:58 AM
• Moon phaseWaning gibbous95% lit

NOAA’s weighted blend of every model it runs, to eleven days, with the chances the grid above does not carry. Where the local office’s grid reaches, its figure sits beneath the blend’s; where it does not, the blend stands alone.

1. TodaySep 28—60°NWS grid 75° / 59°rain 90%thunder 37%wind 22 mph · gusts 32 mph
2. TueSep 2969°53°NWS grid 69° / 53°rain 86%thunder 21%0.43 inwind 20 mph · gusts 28 mph
3. WedSep 3070°51°NWS grid 70° / 51°rain 31%0.13 inwind 8 mph · gusts 15 mph
4. ThuOct 161°43°NWS grid 61° / 43°rain 3%wind 14 mph · gusts 23 mph
5. FriOct 266°49°NWS grid 66° / 49°rain 7%wind 18 mph · gusts 28 mph
6. SatOct 366°45°NWS grid 66° / 45°rain 10%wind 17 mph · gusts 26 mph
7. SunOct 460°46°NWS grid 60° / 46°rain 7%wind 9 mph · gusts 17 mph
8. MonOct 566°51°NWS grid 66° / 51°rain 4%thunder 10%wind 18 mph · gusts 29 mph
9. TueOct 670°51°Beyond the NWS gridrain 5%wind 14 mph · gusts 23 mph
10. WedOct 768°50°Beyond the NWS gridrain 2%wind 10 mph · gusts 17 mph
11. ThuOct 868°50°Beyond the NWS gridrain 4%wind 9 mph · gusts 17 mph

Each line is one model’s own forecast at its own grid cell: three kilometers for HRRR, a quarter of a degree for the global models, which can sit a few hundred meters above or below the town. Where they agree the forecast is settled; where they part is where it is not.

NWS gridBlendHRRRGFSGEFS ± spreadECMWFECMWF AI

A ~ marks a high or low read from six-hourly steps, which miss the true extreme by a degree or two.

ECMWF ensemble meteogram

10 daysTemperature plume

No forecast has skill day by day past about two weeks, and this page does not print one. Where the models stop, the calendar takes over: the 1991 to 2020 normal for each date, the record high and low ever set on it, and where the Climate Prediction Center leans warm, cool, wet or dry over the coming weeks, the month and the season. A site that shows a high for a date three months out is showing you this normal with a wobble.

The forecast reaches Tue Oct 13, from the NWS grid, then the National Blend, then the mean of the global models. Beyond it the lines are the calendar.

Forecast high and lowNormal high and lowRecord high and lowCPC leans warmer than normal

None of these is a measurement. Each is a rating of the forecast ahead, and of what is happening at the point right now, against what the activity or the ailment is known to mind, and each names the figure that decided it. An ailment or a pest is rated as a risk, low to extreme; an activity, a chore or a journey as a condition, poor to ideal.

Each rating says which span it is for: the rest of today’s daylight, tonight, or the next 24 hours.

Tonight has no dark, clear hour without a bright moon in this forecast. Rated poor.

Dark is the sun 18 degrees below the horizon; where it never gets that low, 12 degrees, marked nautical. Clear is sky cover of 20% or less. A bright moon is one above the horizon with a quarter or more of its disc lit. Transparency in the table is estimated from surface humidity (70% and 85% mark fair and poor) and visibility, since the forecast carries no haze or high cloud moisture. Seeing and transparency by hour, where shown, are Environment and Climate Change Canada’s astronomy forecast (regional model; seeing from cloud, wind shear, turbulence near the ground and the surface temperature trend; transparency from the moisture through the whole air column), under the Open Government Licence - Canada. Dew is the air within 2 °C of its dew point. Excellent is four or more clear moonless hours with good transparency; good is three; fair is one, or two clear hours.

Golden hour is the sun between 6 degrees above the horizon and 4 degrees below it; blue hour is the sun between 4 and 6 degrees below. These are the definitions timeanddate.com and PhotoPills use. Directions are degrees clockwise from true north, where the sun’s upper edge and the moon’s center cross a flat horizon; hills and buildings change both. None means the sun does not reach that height on the day; all day means it stays inside the band.

This hour: no-fly (wind at 400 ft near or over your limit, gusts near or over your limit, ground wind near or over your limit). Next good stretch: Tue 2 PM to 7 PM, 5 hours.

Today: civil twilight for Part 107 7:06 AM to sunrise 7:36 AM, and sunset 7:29 PM to 7:59 PM. Anti-collision lighting is required in those minutes and at night.

Good Caution No-fly

Flight restrictions nearby

Reading the FAA’s temporary flight restrictions.

Flight restrictions on the map. TFRs are not the whole picture: controlled airspace around airports needs LAANC authorization. Check the FAA’s B4UFLY.

Wind at 400 ft is estimated from the 10 m forecast by the power law, with exponents for each Pasquill stability class (Irwin 1979, rural, as in EPA dispersion models; the class from wind, sun height and cloud, after Turner 1970); gusts keep the ground gust’s margin. Caution from three quarters of your limit; the default 24 mph is the wind resistance printed for common sub-250 g drones. 14 CFR 107.51: “The minimum flight visibility, as observed from the location of the control station must be no less than 3 statute miles” and at least “500 feet below the cloud”. 14 CFR 107.29: “No person may operate a small unmanned aircraft system during periods of civil twilight unless the small unmanned aircraft has lighted anti-collision lighting visible for at least 3 statute miles”; civil twilight is the 30 minutes before sunrise and after sunset, in Alaska the Air Almanac’s. Kp: SWPC’s scales say satellite navigation problems may occur at G3 (Kp 7) and navigation is “degraded for hours” at G4 (Kp 8); Kp 5 is the typical app warning. Typical limits, not rules: rain chance 30% caution and 60% no-fly, thunder 10% and 20%, below 0 °C caution and −10 °C no-fly, over 40 °C caution. Your drone’s manual and the airspace come first.

Hours fit for spraying, and the days dry enough for fieldwork and hay, read from this forecast’s wind, gusts, humidity, temperature and rain.

Spraying windows

• Tue 3 PM to 7 PM 4 hours, every hour within the rules
• Wed 1 PM to 9 PM 8 hours, every hour within the rules
• Thu 5 PM to Fri 4 AM 11 hours, every hour within the rules
• Sat 10 PM to Sun 12 AM 2 hours, every hour within the rules
• Sun 3 AM to 5 AM 2 hours, every hour within the rules
• Sun 9 AM to 1 PM 4 hours, every hour within the rules

Good Marginal No

Field days

Spraying: sustained wind 3 to 10 mph, the range US extension services and most labels give; gusts no more than 15 mph (this page’s limit); delta T (air minus wet-bulb temperature) 2 to 8 °C preferred and 8 to 10 °C marginal, from GRDC guidance, with the wet bulb by Stull’s formula; no hour at a 30% chance of rain or 0.25 mm forecast during the rain-free time. Follow the product label, which overrides all of this. Field days: dry is no daytime hour at a 30% chance and under 1 mm all day, wet is 6 mm (0.25 in) or more; soil moisture is not in the forecast, so ground still wet from earlier rain is not accounted for. Hay drying marks a dry day with humidity down to 50% and a breeze of 5 mph or more.

The best-rated day this week is Monday, rated good.

Periods in bold fall within an hour of sunrise or sunset. The weather’s side is the fishing index

Major periods are two hours centered on the moon’s passage overhead and underfoot; minor periods are one hour centered on moonrise and moonset: the conventional durations of John Alden Knight’s solunar tables (1936). The rating is this site’s: one point to start, two more within a day and a half of a new or full moon (one more within three and a half days), and one more when a period falls within an hour of sunrise or sunset. The theory has mixed support in fisheries research; the times are exact astronomy.

1. This Afternoon75° · 7% · S 20 mph

   Mostly cloudy, with a high near 75. South wind around 20 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph.

2. Tonight60° · 81% · S 15–20 mph

   A chance of showers and thunderstorms between 7pm and 8pm, then showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 60. South wind 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.

3. Tuesday69° · 80% · WNW 5–10 mph

   Rain showers. Cloudy, with a high near 69. West northwest wind 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.

4. Tuesday Night53° · 26% · NNE 0–5 mph

   A chance of rain showers before 3am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 53. North northeast wind 0 to 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

5. Wednesday70° · 19% · N 0–10 mph

   A slight chance of rain showers before 1pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 70. North wind 0 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

6. Wednesday Night51° · 7% · N 5–15 mph

   Mostly cloudy, with a low around 51.

7. Thursday61° · 4% · NNE 10–15 mph

   Mostly sunny, with a high near 61.

8. Thursday Night43° · 2% · ESE 5–10 mph

   Mostly clear, with a low around 43.

9. Friday66° · 2% · S 5–20 mph

   Sunny, with a high near 66.

10. Friday Night49° · 7% · S 15–20 mph

    Mostly clear, with a low around 49.

11. Saturday66° · 7% · W 15 mph

    Sunny, with a high near 66.

12. Saturday Night45° · 4% · N 5–15 mph

    Mostly clear, with a low around 45.

13. Sunday60° · 5% · NE 5–10 mph

    Sunny, with a high near 60.

14. Sunday Night46° · 4% · SE 10 mph

    Mostly clear, with a low around 46.

Written by the forecaster on duty for their own colleagues and for anyone who wants to know why the forecast says what it says. It is not edited for the public, so it uses the office’s shorthand; it is also the most honest thing any weather service publishes.

FLUS43 KLBF 282020
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Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service North Platte NE
320 PM CDT Mon Sep 28 2026

NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-292030-
Sheridan-Eastern Cherry-Keya Paha-Boyd-Brown-Rock-Holt-Garden-Grant-
Hooker-Thomas-Blaine-Loup-Garfield-Wheeler-Arthur-McPherson-Logan-
Custer-Deuel-Keith-Perkins-Lincoln-Chase-Hayes-Frontier-
Western Cherry-
320 PM CDT Mon Sep 28 2026 /220 PM MDT Mon Sep 28 2026/

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of western and north 
central Nebraska.

.DAY ONE...This evening and tonight.

A disturbance will cross the region this afternoon and tonight, 
bringing potential for showers and thunderstorms. Locally heavy
rainfall is possible tonight, especially across the Sandhills and
north central Nebraska. 

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday.

Another system is expected to impact the region Tuesday through 
Wednesday night, bringing an additional potential for showers and 
thunderstorms. Locally heavy rainfall could lead to a slight risk for
flooding and flash flooding. A Flood Watch is in effect Tuesday
evening through Thursday evening across southwest and central
Nebraska. 

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation is not expected at this time.

$$

The national centers each publish a judgment the local grid does not carry. Read here at this exact coordinate.

The last spring freeze (32°F) usually comes around May 12 and the first fall freeze around September 29: a growing season of about 140 days.

One fall in ten brings a freeze by September 16; one spring in ten still has one after May 25.

Climate of 42.89, -100.55: normals, records and every month

The forecast office edits about sixty fields for every cell of its grid. The common ones are above; these are the rest, as the daily extreme, for anyone who needs the mixing height, the fire danger or the swell.

Each forecast day against the same calendar date at the nearest long-record station: the 1991 to 2020 normal, and the record high and low with the year they were set.