North Platte, NE Weather Forecast
Lincoln County, Nebraska
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for North Platte, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
A dry evening, clear
It is 50°, but the wind is taking it down to 47° on exposed skin. The sky is clear.
The wind backs into the north-northeast around midnight, which is the turn that usually comes ahead of the change rather than after it. Nothing in the next day and a half is wet enough to move plans for.
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
Dry and warming through tomorrow
Nothing wet is expected over the next day and a half.
The overnight low settles near 39°. Tomorrow reaches 65°, 17° warmer than today.
Sunrise and sunset
Next five days, scored 0 to 100The first day or two use the HRRR and NBM cloud layers. Later days only have total cloud, so treat them as a rough guide.
Know when sunset at this place will be worth a photo
We score every sunrise and sunset here from the cloud, haze and smoke forecast, and let you know when one is likely to light up. Sunrise the evening before, sunset a few hours ahead.
Seven-day outlook
29–65°F across the weekThe week runs between 29° and 65°, with tomorrow the warmest day of it. There is no real trend across it: one day looks much like the next. Every day in the outlook stays dry.
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North Platte, NE at a glance
North Platte is home to about 22,523 people in Lincoln County, across 14 square miles. It ranks 11th by population of 51 places in Nebraska with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Gothenburg, 35 miles away.
- County
- Lincoln County
- Population
- 22,523 2023 est.
- Land area
- 14 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 1,648
- Forecast point
- 41.1253°N, 100.7634°W
How well can the network see North Platte?
The nearest Doppler radar is KLNX (North Platte, NE), to the N. Its lowest scan passes about 4,400 ft above North Platte. The beam is above the lowest few thousand feet here, so a warning for North Platte can come before anything looks dramatic on radar.
The closest weather station is KLBF (N Platte/Lee Bird Fld). Close enough that its readings are the conditions in town.
Forecasts near North Platte
- Gothenburg, NE35 mi
- Cozad, NE44 mi
- Ogallala, NE50 mi
- Lexington, NE58 mi
- Broken Bow, NE61 mi
- McCook, NE64 mi
- Holdrege, NE87 mi
- Kearney, NE93 mi
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