Ansley, Nebraska Weather
Ansley, Nebraska — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Ansley, Custer County.
Full aviation weather for Ansley is published on the Broken Bow Municipal Airport (KBBW) page, 27 km away. It carries the current METAR decoded into plain language — surface wind, visibility, cloud layers and ceiling, temperature and dewpoint, and altimeter setting — alongside the raw observation as transmitted. 4 airfields within reach of Ansley have their own pages, listed below.
The Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF) is shown across its full validity period, with each change group broken out so you can see when conditions are expected to shift. Flight category is derived automatically — VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR — from reported ceiling and visibility, with runway details and field elevation alongside. Observations update roughly hourly and forecasts several times a day.
Other airports near Ansley: Loup City Municipal Airport (K0F4) 33 km · Evelyn Sharp Field (KODX) 52 km · Cram Field (KBUB) 58 km
Conditions reported at KBBW describe the airfield itself. Weather 27 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Ansley specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Ansley.
About Ansley, Nebraska
Ansley lies spread across the broad, undulating plains of central Nebraska, where the sky feels impossibly vast and the horizon stretches into an endless, hazy blue. It lies 43.6 miles north-north-west of Kearney, NE (from Kearney, NE: bearing 339°T), and is situated 15.5 miles east-south-east of Broken Bow. The land here is a study in subtle contours, a gentle swell and dip that guides the eye across fields of ripening corn and amber waves of wheat, broken occasionally by the dark, sturdy lines of windbreak trees. In the late afternoon, the sun casts long, golden shadows that stretch and deepen, lending a quiet, almost sacred glow to the cultivated earth. The air, when the wind stirs, carries the dry, sweet scent of prairie grass and the distant, earthy aroma of tilled soil, a constant reminder of the land’s generous, if sometimes demanding, nature. The story of Ansley is etched into the very soil, a testament to the hardy spirit of those who first settled this prairie expanse. Established in the late 19th century, its fortunes have long been tied to the cycles of agriculture, with cattle ranching and grain farming forming the backbone of its economy. The quiet hum of activity in the main street, where a handful of businesses cater to the needs of the surrounding farms, speaks of a life lived at a deliberate, unhurried pace. The old grain elevator, a weathered sentinel against the prairie sky, stands as a silent monument to the generations who have relied on the bounty of this land, a place where the rhythm of the seasons dictates the pulse of daily life.
Live animated radar for Ansley and surroundings — RainViewer.
NOAA GOES-16 GEOCOLOR — live animated loop updated every 10 minutes. Shows cloud cover, storm systems and weather patterns across the continental US.
Source: NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East · Public domain · Auto-updates on page reload
| Location | Ansley, Custer County, Nebraska |
| Coordinates | 41.287786°N, 99.381768°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 68814 |
| Area Code | 308 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Ansley, Nebraska Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Ansley, Nebraska, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Aviation weather — live METAR observations and TAF forecasts — is published separately on the pages for the nearest reporting airports, linked from the aviation section above. Additional sections may include tide predictions, wave height, wave direction and sea-surface temperature, a barometric pressure trend, and a solunar-based fishing forecast with a fishing-conditions rating for coastal localities, and soil temperature, crop weather and live USGS river gauge data for agricultural areas near a monitored waterway. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Ansley includes coordinates 41.287786°N, 99.381768°W, situated in Custer County. ZIP code 68814. Telephone area code: 308. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. River and stream data is sourced from the USGS National Water Information System. Tide predictions are sourced from NOAA CO-OPS; marine and solunar data are modeled from Open-Meteo and public sunrise/moon calculations and should be treated as a general guide alongside on-the-water conditions. Radar is provided by RainViewer. Satellite imagery is sourced from NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East and is public domain.
