First day of school is followed by late storm threat in northern Nebraska

We couldn’t have lined it up better – one of our coolest mornings in a while to start out this first day of school for many in Nebraska!

Quiet conditions overnight have led to some patchy areas of fog for the early hours before we’re quick to warm this Wednesday.

It’ll be sunny and saucy out for the second part of the day: around lunchtime and especially when heading home.

Temperatures continue to rise this week, with highs closer to 90 today.

These temperatures in southeast Nebraska are normal for this point in August, though! A light breeze today will be out of the south-southeast.

Following the first day of school, a late night storm threat will take shape in northern Nebraska as a warm front slowly moves into western Nebraska.

Here’s the latest timing of those storms, generally expected to turn into spotty showers over much of eastern Nebraska by early Thursday to give us a small chance at a very small amount of rain.

After a long, three-week streak of a severe threat somewhere in Nebraska, we had a short break early this week. But we’re back with another severe risk for northern Nebraska for Wednesday night.

A Marginal (Level 1 of 5) risk to Slight (Level 2 of 5) risk highlights northern counties for a damaging wind threat, isolated tornado threat, and a lower-end risk for some hail early on.

Hottest temperatures this week are set to arrive on Friday and Saturday.

We’ll likely have a heat index in the lower 100s both of those days as a reminder that we are in August!

Meteorologist Jessica Blum 
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