Omaha, NE weather
Right now 57°, clear · today 83° / 57°, sunny · seven days from the National Weather Service
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Right now · 57° · clear · wind S 13 mph · 11° warmer than this time yesterday · at Omaha - Eppley Airfield, 5:05 AM
Today, in the Weather Service’s words
Sunny, with a high near 83. South southwest wind 5 to 9 mph, with gusts as high as 16 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.
Sources: National Weather Service forecast and hourly grid for Omaha (api.weather.gov), updated Tue, 4:21 AM 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.