Central Nebraska Today Weather

– The vast majority of weather concerns over the next week are focused on Tuesday (strong winds, at least a modest severe storm threat, and at least near-critical fire weather conditions).

– While Tuesday is the main day of concern, an overall-active weather pattern with various/intermittent rain chances will persist through at least Saturday before a pattern change turns the switch toward a quieter/higher-confidence dry weather pattern starting around Sunday and perhaps several days thereafter.

– While SPC has maintained (actually expanded) a Slight Risk (level 2 of 5) threat for severe storms Tues afternoon-evening to the vast majority of our forecast area (CWA), here at the local level we are still seeing a fair amount of uncertainty regarding not only the magnitude of the potential threat, but also how much of our area could be under the gun (some models suggest the main threat will focus almost entirely east of Hwy 281).

– How far west/east the Tuesday severe storm threat extends will depend heavily on how fast a dryline advances eastward, as a faster/earlier passage of this boundary would actually LOWER any severe storm threat in our west-southwest counties, but would conversely INCREASE the fire weather threat,

– Temperature-wise: With the exception of warmer readings Tuesday (most places well into the 60s/70s, most of the next 7 days will feature very typical early-spring highs mainly in the 50s and lows mainly 20s-low 40s.