Bassett, Nebraska Weather
Bassett, Nebraska — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery for Bassett, Rock County.
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About Bassett, Nebraska
Bassett rests beneath a vast Nebraska sky, a place where the land rolls gently, a canvas of amber grasses and the occasional stubborn cottonwood. It lies 115.0 miles west-north-west of Norfolk, NE (from Norfolk, NE: bearing 290°T), and is situated 16.7 miles east of Ainsworth. The air here carries the clean scent of prairie dust and the distant, earthy perfume of cattle farms, a constant reminder of the agricultural heart that beats strong. Sunlight, when it falls, has a particular clarity, bleaching the faded paint of farmhouses and glinting off the endless horizons. The very ground seems to absorb the light, holding it long after the sun has dipped below the wide, sweeping curves of the land. This is a landscape shaped by generations of farmers and ranchers, their lives interwoven with the cycles of planting and harvest, the tending of livestock. The economy of Bassett has long been tethered to the fertile soil and the hardy creatures that thrive upon it, a legacy evident in the grain elevators that punctuate the skyline and the quiet hum of machinery that drifts from distant fields. While the pace of life may seem unhurried to an outsider, there's a deep-seated resilience here, a quiet determination that has seen Bassett through changing times, a spirit as enduring as the prairie wind.
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| Location | Bassett, Rock County, Nebraska |
| Coordinates | 42.585834°N, 99.537894°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 68714 |
| Area Code | 402 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Bassett, Nebraska Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Bassett, Nebraska, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, real-time aviation weather (live METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport, with a modeled estimate shown when no station is in range), precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. 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 Bassett includes coordinates 42.585834°N, 99.537894°W, situated in Rock County. ZIP code 68714. Telephone area code: 402. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov (NOAA), with a modeled estimate used where no nearby reporting station is available. 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.
