Much needed rainfall as Meteorological Summer comes to a close

Many locations in eastern Nebraska received much needed rain Tuesday morning.  A line of thunderstorms rolled through southeast Nebraska bringing winds gusting 45 to 60 mph and heavy downpours.

Some locations picked up over 4″ of rain – Valley, Nebraska.  Lincoln officially received 0.88″ of rain.  That makes this the wettest August 31 in 83 years.  In 1938 the city received 1.98″ of rain.  Tuesday’s 0.88″ will also go in the weather books as the 4th wettest August 31 on record for the capitol city.

More rain is on the way, but not for Wednesday.  Wednesday will be mostly sunny with temperatures topping out in the middle 80°s – exactly where they should for this time of the year.

The next rain chance comes in starting Thursday afternoon in central Nebraska.  A line of rain/thunderstorms will move east Thursday evening.  While the amount of rain does not appear to be significant at this time, we will have to watch for a few stronger thunderstorms, especially during the evening.