EARLIER SPRING, A 30 DEGREE TEMPERATURE DROP IN A DAY WILL DO THAT FROM AFTERNOON YESTERDAY TO AFTERNOON. TODAY IT’S GOING TO DROP SOME MORE AND WE’VE GOT SOME RAIN ON THE WAY. RAIN. FANTASTIC NEWS. BUT IF YOU’VE GOT SOME EARLY EVENING PLANS HERE, THE WIND SHOULD DIMINISH A LITTLE BIT. AND WHILE IT’S CLOUDY I GIVE IT A B FACTOR FIVE TOLERABLE FOR BEING AND WORKING OUTSIDE THIS EVENING AS WE’LL HAVE JUST A COUPLE OF SPRINKLES. YOU SEE THEM ON THE RADAR HERE, LIKELY NOT REACHING THE GROUND SHOULD STAY DRY. RAIN CHANCES GO UP TOMORROW AFTERNOON. THIS IS OUR COMPUTER MODEL. PROJECTION OF RAIN FROM ABOUT 4:00 TOMORROW UNTIL 11:00 AT NIGHT. THE OMAHA METRO 10TH, 2/10 OF AN INCH FREMONT AND ALSO TEKAMAH. BUT THEN MORE RAIN TOMORROW NIGHT AND THURSDAY. SO IF THIS COMPUTER MODEL IS RIGHT, BY MID-AFTERNOON THURSDAY, WE’LL HAVE HAD NEARLY THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH OF RAIN IN OMAHA WITH SIMILAR AMOUNTS IN WESTERN IOWA. AND THAT WOULD BE FANTASTIC AS WE DESPERATELY NEED MOISTURE. WELL, IT WAS 76 TODAY AT MIDNIGHT, SO THAT’S THE CALENDAR DAY. HIGH 47 DEGREES. GOT DOWN TO ABOUT EIGHT NINE THIS MORNING AS THAT FRONT CAME THROUGH. THE WINDS ARE STRONG. WINDS WERE BLOWING 4045 MILES AN HOUR. BUT SO FAR NO RAINFALL. WE ARE DRY LESS THAN HALF OF THE AVERAGE MOISTURE FOR THE MONTH OF MARCH, AND WE’RE AN INCH AND A HALF BELOW AVERAGE FOR THE YEAR. LOOK AT LAKE WAYNE WAHOO. OUT HERE. THE WINDS ARE SETTLING DOWN A BIT, BUT EARLIER WITH THE STRONG NORTH WINDS, THERE WERE WHITECAPS ON THE LAKE THAT’S OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF SAUNDERS COUNTY, JUST NORTH OF THE CITY OF WAHOO, 62 NORTH WIND AT 1860. MILFORD 61. BLAIR 59. COUNCIL BLUFFS 57. IN COLUMBUS. 59 IN YORK. 53 IN NORFOLK. SO SOME CHILLIER AIR UP INTO NORTHEAST NEBRASKA AND THE WIND COMING IN FROM THE NORTH. WE’LL TRY TO BRING THAT DOWN TOWARD THE OMAHA. ALL RIGHT. LIVE SUPER DOPPLER SEVEN RADAR. NOT MUCH. A COUPLE OF SPRINKLES, BUT AGAIN, THIS IS JUST WHERE THE RADAR BEAM GOES UP AS IT GOES AWAY FROM THE RADAR SITE. AND ENCOUNTERS THE PRECIPITATION AROUND EIGHT 10,000FT IN THE ATMOSPHERE. AND IT’S DRYING UP BEFORE REACHING THE GROUND. RIGHT NOW, SEE THE CLOUD COVER HERE OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS, WE’LL KEEP A NORTH BREEZE WILL TURN MORE TO THE NORTHEAST, AND THEN MOISTURE WILL COME UP FROM THE SOUTHERN PLAINS HERE. AND THAT PROCESS WILL TAKE A LITTLE WHILE TOMORROW. BUT AS WE GET LATER IN THE DAY, SHOWERS BREAK OUT ACROSS EASTERN NEBRASKA. ONE ROUND OF RAIN THERE. SOME MORE LATER TOMORROW NIGHT, MAYBE SOME RUMBLES OF THUNDER IN HERE INTO THURSDAY MORNING AND THEN PRETTY SOON YOU GOT YOURSELF SOME REAL RAINFALL TONIGHT. GENERALLY DRY, MOSTLY CLOUDY, CHILLY, 39 DEGREES FOR THE LOW TEMPERATURE SKIES. MOSTLY CLOUDY, BUT THEN BREAKING UP A LITTLE BIT TOWARD MORNING. COULD BE SOME PEEKS OF SUN TOMORROW MORNING, BUT KIND OF CLOUDY AND COOL. AND THEN RAIN IS LIKELY BY 4 OR 5 6:00 IN THE AFTERNOON. SO IMPACT WEATHER FOR THAT. IMPACT WEATHER FOR THURSDAY MORNING RAIN, SOME RUMBLES OF THUNDER AND SIMILAR FOR FRIDAY MORNING. THESE TEMPERATURES ARE GOING TO BE DIFFICULT TO PREDICT BECAUSE LIKE TODAY IT’S 70 IN MARYVILLE AND 53 IN NORFOLK. RIGHT NOW WE’LL SEE THAT SIMILAR SPREAD WHERE SOUTHEAST OF OMAHA WILL BE IN THE 70S AND NORTHWEST OF OMAHA WILL PROBABLY BE IN THE 30S OR 40S. WE’RE KIND OF RIGHT IN BETWEEN THAT THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS HERE. A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE EXCITED FOR SOME WET WEATHER.

Rain on the way for the Omaha area

Rain on the way for the Omaha area

Updated: 4:37 PM CDT Mar 31, 2026

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Rain on the way for the Omaha area Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Temperatures will be up and down with the rain chances. Freezes are possible Saturday, Sunday and Tuesday mornings coming up.With a combined 50 years covering weather in Nebraska and Iowa, KETV NewsWatch 7 is Omaha’s Weather Leader. Led by Omaha’s Chief Meteorologist Bill Randby, the award-winning team of Sean Everson, Caitlin Harvey and Luke Vickery are focused on alerting you to upcoming severe weather and KETV’s exclusive live radar gives you a 3-minute advantage when storms strike.

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Rain on the way for the Omaha area Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Temperatures will be up and down with the rain chances. Freezes are possible Saturday, Sunday and Tuesday mornings coming up.

With a combined 50 years covering weather in Nebraska and Iowa, KETV NewsWatch 7 is Omaha’s Weather Leader. Led by Omaha’s Chief Meteorologist Bill Randby, the award-winning team of Sean Everson, Caitlin Harvey and Luke Vickery are focused on alerting you to upcoming severe weather and KETV’s exclusive live radar gives you a 3-minute advantage when storms strike.