Ceresco, Nebraska Weather
Ceresco, Nebraska — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery for Ceresco, Saunders County.
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About Ceresco, Nebraska
Ceresco rests in a broad sweep of Nebraska farmland, where the land exhales a quiet expanse under a sky that often stretches from horizon to horizon. It lies 17.8 miles north of Lincoln, NE (from Lincoln, NE: bearing 4°T), and is situated 9.9 miles east of Valparaiso. The fields here, predominantly golden corn and the pale green of soybeans, ripple like a vast, muted sea with every breath of wind, their endless rows converging towards the distant, softened edges of the horizon. The air carries the dry, clean scent of cultivated earth, a subtle perfume that mingles with the fainter, sweeter aroma of distant clover fields in the late afternoon. The gentle undulations of the terrain, though subtle, guide the eye across the landscape, hinting at the slow, persistent work of water and time that has shaped this place. The very stillness of the place, broken only by the murmur of the wind through the stalks or the distant drone of a tractor, seems to hold a deep, unhurried peace. The history of Ceresco is tied to the fertile soil that defines it, a legacy of pioneers who saw the promise in these prairie lands for agriculture. The local economy remains firmly rooted in the cultivation and processing of these abundant crops, a continuous cycle of planting and harvest that has sustained the community for generations. You can see the enduring presence of this agricultural heritage in the sturdy, unpretentious architecture of the older farmsteads and the grain elevators that punctuate the landscape, silent sentinels of past abundance. While no grand monuments mark its past, the quiet persistence of Ceresco itself serves as a testament to the enduring strength and resourcefulness of the people who have called this stretch of Nebraska home, their lives interwoven with the rhythm of the seasons and the dependable bounty of the earth.
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| Location | Ceresco, Saunders County, Nebraska |
| Coordinates | 41.057223°N, 96.644738°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 68017 |
| Area Code | 402, 531 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Ceresco, Nebraska Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Ceresco, 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 Ceresco includes coordinates 41.057223°N, 96.644738°W, situated in Saunders County. ZIP code 68017. Telephone area code: 402, 531. 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.
