Ogallala, Nebraska 7 Day Weather Forecast

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Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service North Platte NE
112 PM CDT Wed Apr 2 2025

.KEY MESSAGES...

- A slight chance of rain/snow showers overnight

- Potential of patchy fog, generally across the Sandhills
  northward to the SD border overnight into early this morning

- Below normal temperatures continue into the weekend

- Another chance for widespread precipitation chances Friday
  into Saturday

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.SHORT TERM /THROUGH THURSDAY/...
Issued at 325 AM CDT Wed Apr 2 2025

The main concern in the short term will be precipitation
chances overnight into early Wednesday morning. Confidence is low in
seeing much development of showers overnight, some bufkit sounding
models show a shallow layer of dry air near the sfc, which leads to
lower confidence in precip reaching the ground overnight, generally
across southwest Nebraska, thus did lower PoPs into Wednesday
morning. For areas, generally HWY 2 and northward, some patchy fog
and drizzle will continue through the overnight and early morning
hours. Could see some brief periods of visibility dropping to a half
mile at times, however this does not look to be widespread and
should remain mostly patchy. Snow showers will be possible early
this morning across the northern Sandhills as well, however snowfall
will remain light, although there will be some lift in the area to
generate snow showers, moisture will remain limited and snowfall
amounts are expected to remain generally around half an inch.


As for high temperatures today, in the wake of the cold front
temperatures will remain cooler, especially across the northern
Sandhills. The combination of the cooler air mass along with
lingering rain/snow showers through the early afternoon,
combined with a deck of stratus, generally HWY 2 and north,
through peak heating hours will keep temperatures cooler as
highs will struggle to reach the low 40s. Areas south of HWY 2
will remain cooler, but should reach the upper 40s to low 50s,
which is around 5 degrees below normal for this time of year.

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.LONG TERM /THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY/...
Issued at 325 AM CDT Wed Apr 2 2025

Temperatures will generally be around 5 to 15 degrees
below normal throughout the week as highs will mostly be in the 40s
to low 50s as cooler Canadian air mass continues to progress
southward through the week. A reinforcing cold front on Friday will
lead to the coldest temperatures of the week on Friday night into
Saturday with lows in the upper teens to low 20s.

The cool down is expected to be brief as the system quickly moves
eastward and a ridge begins to build across the western CONUS, will
start to see temperatures warm back near normal with highs in the
low 50s Sunday to 50s and low 60s by Monday.

As for precipitation chances, there will be a chance for
precipitation Thursday late afternoon and evening as a SW trof
moves across the area. Then a cold front moves into the area
Friday into Saturday. Southerly flow out ahead of the upper
level trof should advect moisture into the area. Lift in
advance of the system should generate widespread potential for
showers. Precipitation during the day should remain rain as
temperatures at the sfc through the mid levels will remain above
freezing. However, do expect as temperatures fall in the
evening hours through the overnight a changeover to snow, but at
this time it is still too early to determine how much snowfall
will accumulate, but will definitely be a system to watch this
weekend as there is the potential for accumulating snowfall in
the forecast area.

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.AVIATION /18Z TAFS THROUGH 18Z THURSDAY/...
Issued at 1258 PM CDT Wed Apr 2 2025

MVFR conditions are widespread across western and north central
Nebraska. These ceilings and conditions will gradually improve
to VFR all areas tonight. Isolated showers will be possible yet
this afternoon. Gusty northwest winds this afternoon will become
light tonight.

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.LBF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
None.

&&

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SHORT TERM...Gomez
LONG TERM...Gomez
AVIATION...Taylor