Carleton, Nebraska Weather
Carleton, Nebraska — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Carleton, Thayer County.
Full aviation weather for Carleton is published on the Hebron Municipal Airport (KHJH) page, 18 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. 5 airfields within reach of Carleton 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 Carleton: Fairmont State Airport (KFMZ) 33 km · Superior Municipal Airport (K12K) 43 km · Fairbury Municipal Airport (KFBY) 45 km · Belleville Municipal Airport (KRPB) 54 km
Conditions reported at KHJH describe the airfield itself. Weather 18 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Carleton specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Carleton.
About Carleton, Nebraska
Carleton sits in a broad, open expanse where the Nebraska prairie rolls with a quiet dignity. It lies 42.2 miles east-south-east of Hastings, NE (from Hastings, NE: bearing 118°T), and is situated 16.2 miles south-south-west of Geneva. The land here is a study in subtle contours, a vast, unbroken canvas under an immense sky that can shift from a pale, washed-out blue to a bruised, dramatic purple as storms gather on the horizon. Fields of corn and soybeans stretch to meet the distant tree lines that mark the courses of unseen creeks, their green and gold patterns shifting with the breeze like a giant, living quilt. The air, especially in the early morning, carries a clean, earthy scent, a mixture of dew-kissed soil and the faint, sweet perfume of ripening grain. Sunlight, when it breaks through the clouds, falls in broad, golden shafts, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the stillness and lending a transient glow to the weathered barns and silos that punctuate the landscape. The history of Carleton is deeply intertwined with the fertile earth that surrounds it, a testament to the hardy pioneers who sought their fortunes here. Farming has always been the lifeblood, with generations of families cultivating the rich soil that yields abundant harvests, shaping the local economy around the rhythm of planting and reaping. The grain elevators, silent sentinels against the sky, stand as enduring symbols of this agricultural heritage, their imposing structures a constant reminder of the bounty of the land. While not a place of grand monuments, Carleton possesses a quiet distinctiveness, a sense of enduring community built on shared labor and the simple, profound beauty of a life lived close to the soil. The pace of life here moves with a deliberate, unhurried grace, reflecting the enduring spirit of the prairie.
Live animated radar for Carleton 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 | Carleton, Thayer County, Nebraska |
| Coordinates | 40.30056°N, 97.678653°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 68326 |
| Area Code | 402 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Carleton, Nebraska Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Carleton, 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 Carleton includes coordinates 40.300560°N, 97.678653°W, situated in Thayer County. ZIP code 68326. 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. 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.
