Omaha, NE weather
Right now 50°, clear · today 63° / 54°, partly cloudy · seven days from the National Weather Service
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Right now · 50° · clear · wind N 10 mph · 4° cooler than this time yesterday · at Omaha - Eppley Airfield, 9:20 AM
Today, in the Weather Service’s words
Partly sunny, with a high near 63. North northeast wind around 8 mph.
Seven days
Winter in Omaha
Omaha averages 27 inches of snow a year, according to NOAA’s 1991-2020 climate normals - a moderate snow place. A handful of accumulating storms a year. Districts close for the larger ones.
That is why local snowfall thresholds differ so much from one town to the next: a district that plans for 27 inches a year is equipped differently from one that never sees any. Here, roughly 4 inches in a single storm is where a normal school day comes under threat.
Upper air over Omaha
The nearest radiosonde launch is Omaha, about 23 miles away. A weather balloon goes up twice a day and measures temperature, humidity and wind all the way through the atmosphere - which is what forecasters actually read to judge whether storms will fire, and how a surface forecast was arrived at.
Forecasters covering the Midwest
Sources: National Weather Service forecast and hourly grid for Omaha (api.weather.gov), updated Wed, 12:35 PM UTC. Sunrise and sunset from NOAA’s solar position calculations. Snowfall normals from NOAA’s 1991-2020 US Climate Normals. County lines from the US Census Bureau.